Tastes

NOSE Dry wine, brown sugar, baking spice, complex dried dark fruit, earthy malt, slight tannic oak touch vanilla fondant. Dark and brooding, like a storm cloud moving in. PALATE Complex dried dark fruit, complex baking spice, complex dried dark fruit, earthy malt, slight tannic oak, and touches of vanilla fondant and camphor. Rich and dense with a slightly acidic bite that keeps this fresh and interesting sip after sip. FINISH Long -> Dried dark fruit, dry wine, brown sugar, oak, and spice.

NOSE Caramel frosting, herbal spice, citrus peels, nuts, light vanilla, dried fruit, and oak. A nice dark aroma that starts spicy and herbal, but turns softer and sweeter as it opens. PALATE Dried fruit, oak, copper, herbal spice, toffee, roasted nuts, touch grassy, and vanilla. Oak comes in heavier making it a bit deeper and a touch tannic. FINISH Medium -> Herbal spice, toffee, oak and some dried fruit.

NOSE Vanilla cupcake, herbal spice, orange peel, touch grassy, touch copper, and light Smarties. Nice, easy, light aroma that’s bright and inviting. PALATE Butterscotch, malt, herbal spice, Cheerios, orange peel, oak, bits of cocoa, and copper. Warm, soft, and surprisingly oaky with a slight tannic punch coming through before the finish. FINISH Medium -> Honey, dried fruit, copper, herbal spice, and oak.

NOSE Peat, malt, spirit, vanilla, banana chips, baking spice, dried apples, and a touch of honey. Young, sharp, peaty aroma with a sweet underpinning. PALATE Peat, caramel, malt, spirit, vanilla, banana chips, baking spice, dried apples, and a touch of honey. Crisply delivered in a way that reminds me of young peated Scotches, just a tad more buttery. FINISH Long -> Peat, fruit, malt, a bit of buttercream vanilla, and ash

NOSE Sweet BBQ smoke, earthy malt, grilled orchard fruit, Twizzlers, touches of tropical fruit, and minerality. Far from the typical Irish Whiskey aroma, this is interesting and alluring. PALATE Sweet BBQ smoke, earthy malt, dark fruit, grilled orchard fruit, Twizzlers, touches of tropical fruit, minerality, and ash. A touch tannic but nice and easy to get into. Sweetly balanced with the smoke FINISH Long -> BBQ smoke, malt, Honey Nut Cheerios, toasted marshmallows.

NOSE Ashy peat smoke, caramel, roasted malt, herbal spice, and a bit of rubber Has a nice bit of depth to it and delivers a soft boldly peated aroma. PALATE Ashy peat smoke, burnt caramel, roasted fruit, baking spice, and some rubber and cocoa. Digging the palate more than the aroma, it has a unique delivery for Irish. FINISH Med-Long -> Ashy/smoky, cocoa, orange peels, and burnt caramel.

NOSE Honied fruit, copper, grassy, and some taffy sweetness. Not a complex aroma, but what’s there is pleasant. PALATE Honey candy, vanilla frosting, caramel, toasted coconut, cinnamon and a bit of oak and candy sweetness. Interesting how much the oak shows up, it’s a heavier whiskey than expected. FINISH Medium -> Oak, honey, dried fruit and some spice.

NOSE Rummy Brown sugar, dilly rye, oak, dried fruit, Manuka honey, toasted bread, jammy apricot and baking spice Wow that rum POPS here… and works with the rye. PALATE Rum, brown sugar spiciness, dried fruit, honey, oak, dilly rye spice, toasted bread, orange peels. and hints of black tea. Bold and heavy with the rum overlaying a well-matured MGP. FINISH Med-long -> Rye spice, oak, brown sugar fades to vanilla taffy and earl grey tea.

NOSE Dried dark fruit, oak, complex dark sweets (caramel, butterscotch, etc.), leather, roasted corn, dried apples and baking spice. Warm, heady, bourbon aroma that draws you in deeper with each sniff. PALATE Caramel, musty oak, dried dark fruit, butterscotch, copper, roasted corn, some honey, and light tropical fruit notes. Bizarrely fruity, but quite nice and elegant. FINISH Medium -> Caramel, dried apples, oak, spice and fruity sweetness.

NOSE Peat, plasticy funk, saline, vanilla, iodine, printer’s ink, citrus, vanilla frosting and some nutty spice. “It smells like Bowmore”. My initial whiff, that’s all I could think of was Bowmore with that plasticy funk that it gets. As it opened it got more complex, but that Bowmore note still dominated. PALATE Peat, plasticy funk, saline, vanilla, iodine, printer’s ink, citrus, vanilla frosting and a tad biscuity with some nutty spice. There is a slight spirity note that comes and goes giving it a nice minerality at times, but overall, like the nose, it tastes like a rather nice Bowmore. FINISH Long -> Plasticy funk, Honey Nut Cheerios, spice and vanilla.