Dewar's Japanese Smooth

Light smell, extreamly smooth and mild in the mouth, chocolate maybe? Smooth going down and slight hit at the bottom. Would be great in a flask at a farm auction, would like a little more flavor for a regular relaxing evening sipper.

Surprisingly delicious for the price point.

The second of @cascodes selected Dewars ‘smooth’ offerings. An acceptable but unimpressive open from the ‘Illegal Smooth’ now the follow up from ‘Japanese Smooth’. Mizunara casks are pretty special, rare, expensive, and with great heritage. But they can be very easily used poorly. I am hoping that the sandalwood aromatics, and coconut-honey sweetness and lightness of body that Mizunara can bring are well integrated into this pour… N: A vaguely tannic and earthy-sweetness are first and foremost, along with a little alcohol prickle. I get the bare minimum suggestion of orange oil through a light biscuit malt and gentle honey. This is surprisingly light and ‘aromatic’ but I wouldn’t go as far to say anything specific about what the aromats are past malt-honey and slightest orange. Certainly none of the Mizunara excellence I had hoped for. P: A little thin but heading towards creamy. The most obvious thing early on is an almost potpourri like perfume. Sandalwood, sweet plum, herbal aniseed and cinnamon. The texture and flavour becomes toasty over time and spice builds to a raw ginger warmth. So much floral-aromatic oomph going on makes this quite unique to me. F: Short. Sweet malt, watery honey, feint peppery spice and a grainy exit texture. Wow, I think thats the most extreme case of aromatic-florals on the palate I have experienced in a whisky. Honestly, like getting perfume sprayed onto your tongue. @cascode are you sure you put the right stuff in the bottle?! There is obvious carry over in this dram to the ‘Illegal Smooth’. The mass produced elements of a weak nose with a little burn, thinness to the palate texture, and short finish with a grainy exit texture are all directly comparable. Where the Illegal Smooth had a subtle Mezcal influence the Mizunara seems to be more strongly applied here. The aromatics are present but not in the way I had expected and not with the refinement I would expect for such sanctified wood. Still, I quite enjoyed this and would happily have a bottle on the shelf to pour freely as a curiosity with no worries over price-tags or savouring. Thanks, yet again, Overlord @cascode Distiller whisky taste #249 [Pictured here with a replica of H0mo habilis (KNM-ER1813). This replica is of a 1.9 million year old specimen discovered in 1973 at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Despite there being arguments over whether this small 1.3 m tall primate belongs to H0mo or Austalopithecines they are remarkable for likely use of stone tools. Despite their ‘ape-like’ morphologies multiple remains of the species have been found alongside primitive stone tools. These tools are often stone flakes used for butchering and skinning animals. Coincident with a major climate shift that saw forests and water-ways replaced with arid savannahs, these tools gave H. habilis a fitness where other primates could not survive. Despite the controversy over correct genus attributions it is commonly thought that H. habilis is the ancestor to the H. ergaster which in turn led to the human-appearing H0mo erectus.]

Smooth amd easy. Good for a every evening drink.

Very light

The Cask Series really brings Dewar's to a nice, approachable level, even if not particularly memorable. Smooth and chocolatey.