Tastes

The nose is musty dusty with brown sugar and spiced walnuts with a lingering sour apple. On the pallet you get everything in the nose just turned up to 11. It finishes with a burn that reminds you it’s bob. A good whisky i would revisit.

Floral with sour white grape with hints of honey and cereal malt. The pallet adds bourbon notes of hints of oak and dry almond with smoke and spice in the finish that highlights the hotness of a young whisky.

A spiced peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The nose is elusive, a hidden peanut husk that highlights the salt with a hint of grape. The taste is a rich and spicy raspberry jam. Halfway through the bottle notes of cinnamon, ginger and hibiscus can be found on the pallet. Additionally, chocolate in the finish is more noticeable.

Fresh grape, strawberry melon with Crème brûlée. You get the burnt sugar light to Medium salt and some vegetal notes. Some hotness, black pepper and bitterness on the finish but it is at 46%. I don’t know if I would buy a bottle again but would try on occasion.

This is an over salted orange fruitcake. Copper, butterscotch, brown sugar, savory char and smoke and bright cherries when first opened on the nose. The pallet has a medium richness exposing the pallet with the added taste of strawberries medium salt. The end of the bottle lends to the spiced side of dark fruit and a mild orange citrus. It still has quite the kick on the pallet that might turn away beginners.

This is a shy whisky. When the bottle is first opened the nose has some rich fruit chocolate and copper. The taste while viscous is watery the first couple o seconds then a slight serried malt and milk chocolate, then medium peat and smoke finishes off the palette. This whisky however developed in the bottle , bringing; orange, melon, plum, slight banana, fresh cut grass, hay, slight caramel/mint and milk chocolate. The peat and smoke comes more to the front as the bottle goes but most of all the salt, sometimes overwhelming so. The finish is medium to long on a all around great whisky. One of my favorite Johnny Walkers if you like salty smoky whiskies.

This whisky is rich, complex, salty and Smokey. Peat smoke, char, bacon, salt, oysters, sticky fruit toffee, cherries black currants and a smooth pepper is just some of what is to be found. The peat is as complex as the fruit. Amazingly delicious, a constant stocker for me.

Muted but complex. Tangy butterscotch leads into fruit, such as watermelon and cantaloupe. It progresses with some earth and honey ending with medium peat trace chocolate and spearmint. The finish is long on this one.

More akin to bourbon this whiskey is vanilla forward. However not traditional vanilla but concentrated cooking vanilla with brown sugar oak and spice.

A musty malt heater sweetness with stone fruits (predominantly peach) and salt. Upon tasting a rich heavy sweetness Leeds into smoke, peat, and mellow spearmint. There is a hint of floral notes that add complexity yet staying smooth and well rounded. A drying chocolate finish makes you go back for one more sip, delicious.