Bushmills 10 Year Single Malt

Retrogusto “dolciastro”

Love the thickness, Hints of Caramel and wood.

A bit spicy, oily, good medium burn with full taste

This is one I've wanted to try for a while. Visiting family in Virginia and stopped in a small town ABC and saw it closed out for $26 so I bit. I recently was impressed by my first bottle of Black Bush, so my expectations going in are fairly high. Let's see if it meets them. NOSE: Fairly Light. Cereal Grains & Apple Juice at first. With time it develops Sherry, Tea, Light Oak, and a heavy scent of Flowery Perfume. NEAT: The first sip was almost effervescent. Light and Tingly with a healthy dose of Peppery Spice. Subsequent sips revealed it to be relatively Thin and Fruit Forward. Sweet Apple & Pear. Some Wood and Sherry notes. Bitter Finish with Sherry Notes lingering. Every tasting note listed you really had to work to find with the exception of the bitterness. It was front and center. Splash: A little water really makes the Sherry Notes pop on the nose. Eliminates some of the bitterness, but makes the palate a one note Vanilla affair. VERDICT: This one was a disappointment from the opening of the way too thin and flimsy paper tube to the bitter (pun intended) ending. This did not taste like 10 year old whisky. I much prefer the Black Bush. Hell, even though it's been while since I've had it, I may even prefer the standard White Label. Glad that I bought this at a closeout price and not the regular $40+ that it normally sells for. It will not be a repeat buy.