Hibiki 21 Year

In Kyoto, you can buy the most exquisite green tea cookies on this planet: quality ingredients, perfectly composed, but utterly expensive. The same applies to Hibiki 21. On the nose, papaya, kiwi and subtle hints of soot mix with sandalwood, dried herbs and incense. Like a roller coaster, the taste catapults you through the flavor wheel: juicy, fruity, spicy and floral, intense and rounded, this blend sparkles like a diamond. Mizunara, icing sugar, and, I kid you not, green tea cookies with white chocolate crown the slowly fading finish. A world-class whisky! RATING: 4.5/5.0 stars ≙ 91 pts → SUPERB

A generous sample from bourbonjosh. Admittedly excited to try this as it has a 99 on Distiller. Nose: Vanilla, poached pear, wood almost like cedar, grassy background notes, and a ton of butterscotch. Huge butterscotch punch in the nose. This smells awesome! Flavor: Sweet wood notes meet and more vanilla and butterscotch. A little bit of a funky wood note from the barrel that I associate with sherried scotch with just a little bit of baking spices in the background. Finish: Wow...medium length finish with a ton of toasted coconut, toasted oak, roasty toasty notes almost like you'd associate with a dark coffee but without the bitterness. Sweet and pleasant and then fading in to a hint of dried fig and dried cherry. This stuff is awesome! Too bad I can't find it.

Beautiful and perfect