Tastes

I bought in some great deal, that's mostly why it stayed overlooked. It was quite mistake. This is beautiful drink. The smell is honey and heather, bit of freshly cut oak wood. Distant smell of peat. The mouthfeel is thin, light, juicy, the taste is perfectly whisky essence in every drop. Again honey sweetness, bit of apples and young pears, oak and grain, little pinch of salt and some herbal tastes. The perfect harmony of lightness and sweetness with peated tones remind me some other whisky I liked, but I can't remember. It's like meeting old friend

Straw colour and decent smell of grass, honey melon and drop of turpentine. Taste is very light, sweet-ish lemon zest, little bit of sourness like in bourbon, grain starchness and touch of pepper with final burn. This is completely inoffensive, light daily sipper. There is no much complexity, straightforward younger (would guess 4-8 years) whisky.

The colour is nice, not sure if that's colouring or PX cask influence. I would guess little of both. So we get nice brownish, dark amber. Smell is nice, not too powerful, but it reminds there is peat whisky dating PX cask in your dram. The taste is very nice peat with underlying, decent barbecue like smokiness. The peat itself is well balanced, with hints of earthiness. Lovely. There is more - sweetness of fall and winter festivities. Heavy (like pumpkin, with bit of clove, cinnamon and pinch of kardamom) pies and other bakery, especially with raisins and other candied fruit or molasses. The end is neat, warm, little tangy. How I like the Talisker Port Ruighe, witch works well for spring and summer (the nice not that hot days), this is more fall and winter companion for the exactly same purpose.

Well, I'm not impressed by smell. It's alcoholic, pungent, transition to polish remover. Luckily the taste is quite better. Sweet, toffee like on the start, to cinnamon wood and dark chocolate, ending with decent burn bite and then nice and warm going down. For the price range, and the marketing idea to use famous persons to move younger bourbon form ricks to customers, it's not bad. The bottle is nice and the price ratio on that 1 litre volume is beautiful. I feared a bit it would be something between WT 81 and 101, but no. The Longbranch branches to it's own direction. This seems like poker game "at hand" sipper bottle.

Glenfiddich, the leader of single malt comeback, has nice setup of consumer accessible bottles. And it starts with 12YO. Smell is nice, even if bit mundane and direct. There are fruity tones in it, overripe apple, maybe pear. The taste is very smooth, pleasant with little tingle on the end. In taste there are fruity tones of apple/pear and lingering sweet honey. I also taste bit of walnut nutty taste, which is pleasant surprise. Glenfiddich is accessible, affordable nice sipper but it also fits several summer/autumn style of cocktails.

I really like the concept of the Lost Destillery products, even if I doubt it "scientifically". The smell is strong in surprising "sour mash bourbon style" way, sweet, sour, I smell ripe pears if I let it sit a bit. The taste is very nice, sweetish with little woody hints, bit cardamom spice but otherwise fruity, almost floral. There is nice burn at the end and also something like raisins in rum aftertaste. Very pleasant. As again with Distiller, there is bit confusion with ABV - they claim 41%, the picture of limited bottle is 45% and the regular bottle, which I have, is 43%.

My favourite Jim Beam. I had all from main production, recently tasted the Single Barrel and Signature craft still holds as my top shelf from JB. It's very essence of friendly bourbon fan sip, the taste is nice, sweet, with all the hints of vanilla, corn, wood, toffee which you would expected from bourbon, the taste is very much the same style, less on oak, more to corn and sweet apple. Just finished the bottle and I'm happy that I kept spare one, because it seems all my favourite shops are out of stock.

I really like this bottle of bourbon. It has that ligh sweet oaky smell which tempts me to make immediate sip. The taste is smooth, warm, light toffee and vanilla sweet with some fruity taste lingering on back (apple?), no bite, little acidity on the end as I like it. This is pleasant sipper for the long evening.

Hay colour looks promising, the smell is nothing surprising for bourbon, little alcohol kick on start and then sweet corn aroma. Bit of wood and caramel/butterscotch. The taste is bit letdown. Starting with rough burn slap, you need to bit shaking off to notice the classic JB/bourbony tones, nothing surprising and worth mentioning. Dilution brings out the flavour a bit, smooth the viscosity, make caramel to butterscotch taste and mouthfeel. Brings out some ripe apple, bit of spices. Still, the ABV only gives you extra burn, if you're into it. You need few drops of water to bring out the tastes. I believe there are more interesting bottles with similar price tag. With more outstanding flavours, because this is rather dull.

This is absolutely splendid commonly accessible whisky especially for people who like to wander between Highland and Isla whisky or people on adventure to the peaty stuff. Smell is delicious, sweet and sour like overriped fruit, some salt and drop of peat to it. The taste is great, that rich fruitiness mixes with little brine and wood. Hint of saltiness. Still that grain rich body of proper whisky holds the backbone of whole sip.