Tastes

Apples, cinnamon, cloves, and tobacco on the nose. Sweet, mildly peated, with autumn spices, apples, cinnamon, sherry, and honey on the palate. Warm, spicy finish, with more honey and tobacco.

The nose is sweet, with pears and vanilla and mild caramel. The palate is again very sweet, very rich, caramel, some roastiness, leather, ripe dark fruits, and a bit of vanilla. The finish is fairly short, not unpleasant. I used to love this whiskey, it's sherried and sweet. I find however that it lacks complexity.

Spices and orange zest on the nose, some fruits. Fruity, almonds, cake, clove spice on the palate. Long sweet, cake finish.

On the nose, it's fresh banana bread, with hints of pears. On the palate, it's homemade Christmas Cake (with oranges) and rum vanilla frosting. There's a hint of salted black licorice. The finish is warm, peppery, mild, and fairly long.

The nose is sweet, with syrup and vanilla. There's a slight wine scent as well as some dark fruit. The palate is thick, very rich, sweet and syrupy, somewhat smokey, with a bit of dry wine, and some dustiness. There is a faint maraschino cherry flavour. The finish is fairly dry, very smooth, and the Sherry really shines on the end. This would be one of my top three whiskys.

Rum and oranges on the nose. Rum and sweet, spices and some wood, very spicy, and warm, and a bit tart. The finish is long, spicy and warm.

The nose is sweet, fruity, with a lot of sherry, and some mild vanilla notes. The pallet is warm, with sherry, sherry, and more sherry. There is some honey sweetness, a bit of tobacco, and spice. The finish is short, warm, and sweet.

Light peat and smoke on the nose, lots of sweet there. The pallet is smokey, peaty, brown sugar, spices, vanilla, and there is certainly an Irish whiskey flavor to it. The finish is short, spicy, and sweet. It's a nice whiskey, not overly complex, and has a nice level of smoke and peat. When I went back to this whiskey after a week, I think the Irish whiskey is quite good, but the smoke that they've added to it, is not well done.

The nose is mild, fruits (banana), rye, and citrus. The palate is spicy, more fruit, more citrus, more rye, salt brine, autumn spices, and something sweet like rum. The finish is quite spicy, starting hot n sweet, quickly finishing dry n bitter (tangy).

The nose is huge, campfires, peat, burning railway ties, all of it. The palate is a bold rush of flavors, all that you expect from Islay, peat, smoke, some brine, some oiliness, and a hint of chocolate. And then it all disappears at the end, the finish is short, warm, spicy, with just a hint of lingering peat and saltwater brine.