Grangestone Highland Single Malt Bourbon Cask Finish

EXPLORATION: At first serviceable, but lacks complexity. Nose is vanilla, orange, and cereal. Tastes sweet, bitter orange, with a brief vanilla finish. Upon further tasting it begins to flatten. I wouldn’t buy a bottle of this, but I’d be happy throwing it in a cocktail or, gods forbid, some coke. But perhaps there's nothing wrong with that. EXHORTATION: Seek not, lest ye be in the market for tasting samplers from different barrel finishes, or you’re in need of a cheap mixer. Though I feel there’s probably better mixers for the same price.

Mostly inoffensive nose, with just barely a hint of corn like the Glen Ness but almost unnoticeable. Forward taste is good, but with a sharp almost fiery but short aftertaste.