Tastes
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Smokehead Islay Single Malt
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed May 6, 2021 (edited August 12, 2022)Smokey cream sweetness, meat, jerky , bbq, cig, tobacco 3.25 Cream complex meat oily thickness, slight bitterness woody oaky, vanilla caramel 2.5 High sustained oaky smoke 2.5 8.25 2.75 Cough syrup sweetness, honey maples syrup, mid pep, strong complexity, caol ila 12YO kind of smell, 3 Spicy at first but it will be overcome with a little flat notes to dull it down. But in time you get more smokey and nice earthy herb smoke, bitterness at that, earthy 2.75 smoke and low to mid sustain smoke 2.5 -
Bunnaha sweetness caramel, raisin dark fruits, creamy, toffee, 3 tenessee grain (jack daniel like), sweetness with a hint of rawness and roughness at the back of your palate, banana, mid pep, bitterness and heat 1.5 oaky and mid sustain 2.5 2.25 Buna 12YO rubber, thickness, creamy, sweetness, no pep, chocolate cocoa, 3 iodine, bitterness, oaky rotten wood, you get a roll of caramelization, interesting thick malty and similar to corn texturization 2.25 mid sustain 2.25 2.5
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Skype, chemical, salt, sweet caramel, acidic, dry compleex, pep, raisin and dark 2 thick oily, sweeet raisin rum, salty, talisker saltiness, dark complexity, 2.25 oaky and woody 2 2 SKYE Caramel, fairly flat, pep, salt 2.75 Sweetness, a iodine saltiness, complexity oily and thick, creamy, bitterness, woody and oaky 2 long sustained oaky woody bitterness 2.25 2.25 dryness saltiness that you get from any talis, hint of dry wood rotting wood, mid pep 2 bitterness oh so slightly on the sip, saltiness that is overwhelming but interesting, woody and oaky, you get oiliness through the mouth, thick-moderate coat around the mouth, 3 sustainance and mid smokey 2.5 2.5
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salty pep, complexity, briny 2 Pep, bitterness, oaky, youthful, 1.75 briny, salt sustained 3 2.25 delicate, and not as strong as Talisker Skye was, sweetness and rounder profile that is quite unlike a talisker profile, no salt or smoke smell, apple sweetness oh so slightly 2.25 slow increase in intensity, but you get the iodiney flavor which i generally do not like, nose flaring burn, oaky and woody, feel like a relatively young spirit, bitterness nono for me 1.75 long sustain woody and slight slight peat 2.5 2 MID PEP, LIGHT PEAR AND FRUITY, RELATIVELY MORE DELICATE, QUITE A SURPRESS WHISKY, CANDY 2 OILY SALTINESS, COMPLEX, IODINE, BITTERNESS IS MIDDLE OF THE TASTE BUT BEARABLY LIGHT, IODINE IS REALLY STRONG ACTUALLY, SALTINESS, WAXY TEXTURE 2 MID PEP AND SUSTAIN 2 2
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old perth peaty intense complexity similar to that of caol ila kind of blend, oily thick, caramel, fruity rose, 3 low intensity and you get a mild first hit, and soon you have a increasing mouth feel of peaty, oaky wooden feel, thick complexity follows, nice tinge 2.5 long sustain oaky and wooden 2.5 2.75 SWEET FRUIT AND FLORAL, APPLE, CANDY, STRONG LIGHT SWEETNESS, COMPLEXITY AND MORE OILINESS TO THIS 3 DELICATE CANDY GUMMY BEAR TASTE, OH WOW AND A ZEST OF CITRUS HITS YOU ON THE SIDE PALATE THAT REALLY SURPRISED ME, BITTERNESS AND A SLIGHT OAKY WOODY SAWDUST KICK AT THE REAR, SMOKE ATTRIBUTES PERHAPS, 2.25 (DUE TO THE BITTERNESS AFTERTASTE) LOW TO MID SUSTAIN ON OAK 2.5
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DUN MHOR THE SMOKY BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY SWEETNESS YOUTHFUL, DELICATE, STRAWBERRY FRUITY, PEAR, APPLE, 1.5 CHOCOLATE, SWEETNESS, TOFFEE, VERY ITNERESTING FLAVORS THAT YOU GET FROM THIS. LITTLE TO NONE SMOKE HONESTLY, BUT YOU GET SOME BITTERNESS TOO, BUT THE FIRST HIT IS VERY ITNERESTING KICK OF CHOCO, 2.75 (A LITTLE LOWER DUE TO THE WEIRD WOODY BITTER AFTERTASTE) FLAT AND NO SUSTAIN 1.5 1.75
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