Tastes

Aggressive but great flavors. Good experience for an intermediate!

One of my favorite all time Scotchs. Have not tried the 14yo. Sweet with some complexity on both the nose and palate.

Smokey but delicate. Well balanced but pretty simple and friendly, but that is expected in a blend. Worth a try for the price and cool story.

Nose is all brine and seaweed with peat. Palate is peat heavy but with a sweeter undertone with the brine and cold sea feel. Finish is longer than the palate but pleasant in the sweet peatyness.

Nector of the gods.

Nose is old browned banana and rubbing alcohol. Palate is sweet, old banana still... finish is honey sweet and old banana. Water brightened and brought more fruit and grass flavors. Will revisit to try and get away from banana...

Nose is sweet vanilla and dried dark fruit, some tobacco. Palate is dense oil and sickly sweet vanilla. Think vanilla extract almost. Finish has cherry that quickly fades to a strange bitter medicinal note. A good qaulity whiskey but the overly sweet cherry and vanilla is not to my taste. Saving it for my wife who likes the Sweet notes.

Spicy nose and taste that lets more herbal and woody qaulity come through than the sweetness of other bourbons. As a scotch guy that struggles with bourbon (the sweet roughness) it was a great buy. On second visit the bottle gets more dried fruit as it has contact with oxygen. Bananas and cinnamon on the palate.

Nose and taste are all clean& spicy with eucalyptus and cherry vanilla. Finish is light and menthol herbs. This is my first adventure into rye from Scotch and I was happy with it.