Tastes

Nose - Briny grain sweetness, sweet floral notes, fresh baked sweet brioche bread, faint hints of clementine/tangerine. Taste - Lightly briny, cinnamon-like heat, light green oak bitterness, tart apples and pears, brown sugar, hint of chocolate covered malted milk balls. Finish - Faint lingering cinnamon heat, briny sweetness, herbal sweetness. 88/100

Nose - Spicy vanilla, hint of a lightly floral honey, background notes of fresh strawberries and apples. Taste - Gentle spicy vanilla, lightly bitter apple juice that was made from primarily peels and a few stray seeds. Finish - Lingering vanilla spice and heat on the tongue, hint of oaky bitterness like that of a barrel aged apple cider, bit more bitterness like crushed apple peels and seeds. 79/100

Nose - Floral honey, crisp fresh rainwashed apples, pears, and white/green grapes. Taste - Fresh apples, this funky sweetness like toned down dried longan. Very refreshing, honey, hazelnuts, lightly fruity oak bitterness. Finish - Lightly lingering bitterness like that of apple seeds, a tail end of an artificially sweetened apple juice or a hard cider. 77/100

Nose - Sherry is definitely present on the nose, floral honey, lightly toasted oats, lightly tanned leather, cinnamon raisins, fresh hay, prunes. Taste - Dark dried cherries, prunes, raisins steeped in a red wine with cinnamon and nutmeg, lightly toasted oats that have been made into an oatmeal, light oak bitterness. Finish - Slight herbal bitterness that's actually quite pleasant, light bitterness like if you bit into the seed of a prune. 88/100

Nose - Definitely a heavy sherry influence here even though it's only 1% of the whisky, dark pitted fruits, vanilla caramels and milk chocolate are in the background. Sweet spiced plums stewed in a red wine. Taste - Sweet dark cherries, luxardo maraschino cherry syrup, rye bread, cinnamon, dark chocolate covered cherries, wild cherry pepsi concentrate. Finish - Lingering bitter walnut sweetness, more luxardo cherry syrup, a drying dark chocolate bittersweet. 89/100

Nose - Best described as "inoffensive artificially sweetened whisky drink", faint nectarine/peach scent, freshly made hot simple syrup. Taste - Apple/pear cider that has splenda or equal added and watered down a bit with a light dusting of cinnamon. Lightly bitter apple peels and orange pith. Extremely thin mouthfeel. Finish - Lingering light apple peel bitterness with that artifical sweetener sweetness. Stale apple juice. 70/100

Nose - Mildly sweet vanilla, faint scent of Welch's Strawberry Soda, hint of caramelized sweet pineapples, toasted peanut skins, lightly toasted almonds (sweet nutty). Taste - Sadly very one-dimensional, spicy cinnamon/vanilla caramel sweetness with a hint of oak. All the fruit in the nose seems to have disappeared. Finish - Light tingly heat that quickly fades to a vanilla/brown sugar sweetness that also quickly fades. 78/100

Nose - Sweet vanilla, light hint of oak, sweet herbs, very very faint bananas, unlit charcoal briquettes. Very faint stale peanuts. Taste - Very thin mouthfeel, "smooth", this odd, faint, artichoke-like herbal bitterness, medicine-like sweet, vanilla, light cinnamon. Finish - Faint cinnamon heat, weird splenda-like sweetness which all fades pretty quickly away. 70/100

Release #6 - 140.2 proof Nose - (w/o water) Dark caramelized brown sugar, barrel aged vanilla, dark chocolate covered cherries, maraschino cherry syrup aged in oak barrels. (w/ water) less cherry notes, but more dark chocolate. Taste - (w/o water) Intense cherry vanilla sweetness, drying oaky cinnamon, concentrated coke syrup, but somehow still with the carbonation. (w/ water) The sweetness is tamed back a bit and the coke syrup has lost a bit of its "fizz" but is still sweet and delicious. Finish - (w/o water) Lingering cinnamon warmth, pleasant oaky coke, pleastantly syrupy sweet. (w/ water) Mellows out the sweetness a bit and turns it into a lightly drying, yet buttery finish. 91/100

Nose - Lightly sweet barrel aged vanilla, heavy oak, dark chocolate caramels. Taste - Sweet vanilla coke, clean crisp oak, cinnamon spice, light bitter chocolate/coffee thing. Finish - Lingering cinnamon warmth, lightly sweet syrupy coke, lightly dry. 88/100