Tastes

Okay 3.5/5 for just the liquor. But when taken price into consideration this is probably the best you can get at a mere $20. When compared with other $20 whiskies this blows them out of the water. It's a very juicy and fruity whisky with flavours of milk chocolate a tiny bit of astringency on the finish

Yes it's smokier and peatier than the 10 BUT other elements of talisker 10 is lessened. First of all its still not as peaty as an ardbeg or laphroaig. It's not as flavourful and "deep" flavoured as a talisker 10. It's a tiny bit peatier than talisker 10 but without the deep sweetness and brineyness. If you want a peatier talisker I suggest adding a drop of ardbeg in it, works well without sacrificing the fruity baked apple notes like in the storm. I definitely prefer the 10 opposed to the storm.

Hmm where to begin...well let's start with the nose. When I first smelled it, immediately the first thing I smelled was the bourbon nose. I mean it has a really really flavourful bourbon nose. Also you can smell the sweet grain, toasted corn. Really floral, syrupy, inviting. On the Palate it's also really floral with hints of milk chocolate, clove and Walnut. It's 51% abv but it's "really smooth" just covers your mouth with a creamy sweet toasted corn. The finish is caramel and milk chocolate medium length. Now would I get this again? Probably not, it's good but i wasn't blown away (probably because the last Japanese whisky I had was the taketsuru 17 which was bomb I rated that one 5/5). It's because you can definitely taste the grain note (corn) but it's not that bad you can definitely tell there's some older whiskies in here. If you like a really mature toasted corn creamy taste then this is for you. Cheers

Very fair for the price, flavourful better then glenfiddich and glenlive the 12 3.5/5

VERY smokey, tarry, peaty, briney, seaweeds, creamy. No medicinal, rotten vegegal, rotten meat taste. Tastes like smokehead with MUVH more body and creaminess. Reminds me of a lapgroiag quarter cask without the medicinal taste. Also reminds me of a really aggressive caol ila 12 turned up way up. It's very good. Just as peaty and smokey as laphroaig and abdrdbeg but also very different. Has a very very clean peat and smoke taste, also I think it tastes the brineyest(mmmm) Cheers

With the price into consideration this is fantastic. It honestly tastes closer to a 15yr old malt. So the cask selection is very good. It's really flavourful, creamy, rich, and of course spices. Also for me it has a HUGE honey note, as it actually tastes like someone put honey in the whisky taste (not a bad thing). It's not the best whisky in the world but it's price is competing against glenlive 12 glenfiddich 12 and it blows them out of the water so 5/5 for that

Absolutely fantastic super sweet and sticky. The only thing is the price. $150CAD puts it in territory of some seriously good other whiskies that's better like much older glendronach single casks.