Auchentoshan Three Wood

Great oaky nose, smooth but not complex.

Like the after taste of sweetness & just simply pleasant

It's been a long time since I've had any variety of Auchentoshan. The nose has a hint of bourbon, brown sugar, spice, alcohol, raisins, and perhaps something like figs? It's full body, but fairly mellow. There is an earthy note from the sherry finishes, but it's far less sweet than I expected from something in a PX cask. The finish is long, spicy, there is some wood, but it reminds me more of pine or cedar than what I typically think of as oak, and the wood is not excessive. There is a spicy burn, but more like white pepper than black. Dark chocolate comes out along with a bitter grassy flavor that I associate with lowland whiskey. It's not going to replace Islay, but it's a nice change of pace. It's nice to be reminded that scotch can be great without smoke.

Stunning colour. Deep dark as though it was heavily poured with iodine. The nose is powerfully warm, full and alluring so one might not back away from the glass and then really get dizzy. Aroma is full of really dry and a bit bitter raisins, prune, dark chocolate, black currant, burnt sugar and almond. Polish and citrus zest notes typical to Auchentoshan are recognizable in Three Wood but they tie up with that plummy bitterness though. With time it starts to reveal some splendid sticky-sweet dried ashberry and chokeberry aroma and it even has a light but piquant jojoba oil fragrance-alike scent. The taste correlates with the aroma - full bodied, warm, complex and sweet - unputdownable. The citrus hints and bitterness are a bit more expressed so are the sugar and prunes as well. Some spices, fig, syrupy cherries (sherry cask influence), licorice and creamy biscuits. The finish is all sweet again. Not very long with a bitter end on a palate. Auchentoshan Three Wood is one of the sweetest malts I’ve ever tried so it might be compared to bourbons in its sweetness and not lose a game in that case.

Fruit cake, orange, clean, little smoke or distraction on the nose (2.5/5) Caramel, honey, toffee, sweet brown sugar, little all spice (3.5/5) Finish lingers but localized (3/5)

Representing the lowlands Nose: fruity (like green fruits), caramel, syrupy raisins, mild, very faint oak, hints of vanilla. Body: smooth, this and pleasant Palate: mild spice, very mild caramel, it’s light and flowery with light tobacco and again light oak Finish: is warming and medium in length Note: this is a subtle scotch, sweetness abounds but has understated heather and caramel and tobacco. The more I drink it the more subtle fruits and tobacco along with leather and come come through. Very very easy to drink. A very nice scotch.

At nose very sweet and intense vanilla. At taste smooth texture, vanilla, creamy as cornish cream, brown sugar, long warm and sweet finish. waffle with cream

Very sweet, very cinnamony