BEARFACE Wilderness Series Matsutake

This is unique. Earthy, sweet, oaky evan bready. It is incredibly hard to explain this whisky. However, I appreciate that it is not just another sweet, buttery Canadian. It has sweetness, but also dusty oaky notes with some clear mushroom notes. If you love mushrooms on your pizza, try this out. So cool.

Nose: Mushroom and earth. Some slightly sweet notes of strawberry milk Palate: Leather, taste some more berry sugar sweetness, pineapple, obvious mushroom influence, incredibly manly rustic flavours as the sweetness fades into paper bag, dank autumn morning hiking, pizza crust Finish: Mushroom goes away, leaving only the sweeter and earthy notes Feel like this one is to mix for adding meatier kicks into a cocktail, but as for sipping neat, will have to grow on me some more. This was written on a second tasting. The first tasting was too shocking for me to write any words, haha. The mushroom is very dominant and difficult to brush aside for how peculiar it felt in a whisky. Would not recommend adding too much water, made it taste like a watery canned mushroom soup. Appreciate the uniqueness of the idea though.

This is a weird one. Canadian forest air after a heavy rain: trees, pine needles, tree sap, fresh mushrooms with some damp dirt. Also, sultanas, very tannic Bordeaux wine, vanilla cake with icing sugar, corn syrup, fennel, and some Orange Crush soda.