Longrow Peated

At the Four Friends in Lviv. Strong finish. Really quite good

Nose: Honey, bright malt, dandelion tops, sourdough bread, walnuts. Palate: Strong honey sweetness, candied lemon, slightly metallic, but buttery; light burn. Finish: Medium-length lingering lemon and peat.

Enjoyable. Not as peaty as an Islay. Prefer to just do a Talisker 10 yr. very similar.

After my experience with Springbank’s Hazelburn products, I’m pretty excited to dive into one of their heavily peated Longrow products. The nose starts with some sun baked citrus fruits (orange and lemon) with ocean sea spray, then comes a light peat smoke intermingling with short bread cookies and light ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting with caramel covered shortbread cookies leading to those sun baked citrus fruits then, ocean salt with light coastal rock minerality before a ginger and light chili spice burn that finishes long with light peat, salted sun baked citrus fruits, wet ocean rocks, ginger, a little chili heat and shortbread cookies. This is another delicious whisky by Springbank distillery and one that I would be happy to drink. For a heavily peated whisky, the peat is actually very restrained and allows for those sun baked citrus fruit funk, ocean sea salts and nice minerals to come through with some spice that all works well together without one note overpowering the other, but it just doesn’t really captivate me the way a Hazelburn 10 and 13 did. Big thanks to @ctbeck11 for the sample.

So many flavors. Aroma is medicinal & horse blanket-y, immediate flavors are of rich malt & toffee, a lot of sweetness in the middle, similar to Cardhu or Bruichladdich's Port Charlotte, that leads to oxidized fruit & finishes on grassy/peppery peat smoke & sea salt that lingers well after

All I tasted was smoke— then someone said “salt” and I tasted salt. Now I think it’s salty. This was my first “good” scotch. Loved it so much I’ve bought multiple bottles— will note I have detected some variance from bottle to bottle. But, please, take what I say with a grain of salt.

Nose: butter, malty, biscuits, brine, vegetal peat Taste: follows the nose, brine and vegetal peat, a bit hot (brash), white pepper, green banana Finish: more pepper heat, some salty licorice Overall quite good, tastes a bit young