Dewar's Japanese Smooth

Honey notes

Nose: A rather shy and undemonstrative nose at first but it gains some momentum after a while and becomes quite sweet. Light honey, light vanilla, light malt, a little peach and apricot with a slowly emerging buttery note. There is not much mizunara wood aroma but the whisky is a little softer and more rounded than other entry level Dewars and it has a fragrant touch. In a blind tasting line-up of Dewars blends you would notice that this has a soft quality to it but you would probably not identify it as due to mizunara casks (well, I wouldn’t anyway). Palate: Light, mainly cereal and thin honey with some soft stone-fruits in the arrival. Mild ginger spice in mid-development but it flashes into view briefly and then disappears. Very easy to drink and the texture is pretty good for an affordable blend, with a full almost creamy quality. Finish: Short. Semi-sweet cereal with a faint spice aftertaste. This is an average blended scotch but to be fair there is nothing objectionable about it and it’s very approachable. You can enjoy it neat as a sipping whisky so it’s definitely on the high side of average. It works well as a mixer but in that context the slight mizunara influence is obscured. If I was going to a barbecue with friends who like the occasional dram but are not particularly fans of whisky it would be a great session bottle to share. It would also be fine as a last dram of the night if you wanted something really soft and easy to relax with. I sort of agree with some of the official Distiller tasting notes but I think Jake is a little hard on this and the score is a bit low. I was initially going to give this 79/100 but I found myself enjoying my tasting dram more and more as I was typing this so I’m boosting it up by a percentage point. For the money this is fair value. I missed out on picking up a bottle of the Dewar’s Caribbean cask when it was around but I do have the Ilegal mescal and Portuguese port cask finished blends. Reviews incoming soon. “Above Average” : 80/100 (3 stars)

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