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Honey orange color with sticky legs. The very first sniff is honeysuckle, green apple, pear, lemongrass and vanilla. It's a soft aroma, redolent of linen or maybe lavender fabric softener. Barley sugars, candied orange and dried berries.
The flavor is honey and vanilla bean coffee creamer. Fresh tobacco leaf. It has a grassy, rustic component; hay and barley. There is an oak char bitterness that acts as a counterpoint to the other, sweeter qualities.
Finishes with tobacco smoke and wood char. More barley sugars and toffee/molasses sweetness. A mint/menthol coolness that lingers after everything else fades.
I have no beef with Monkey Shoulder, but I'm curious as to why this is the blend that captured America's heart. Is it because it's a blend that drinks like a single malt? I'd put it in the above average camp: very (repeatably) drinkable and priced nicely.
Nose: Pears, Vanilla, Apple, Orange Peel, Banana, Honey
Palate: Pears, Pepper, Oak, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Green Apple Peel, Barley, Honey, Orange Peel
Finish: Short, Meh, Cinnamon, Oak, Fruity.
Punches weigh above its weight great for any Scotch lovers or any Scotch/Whiskey Beginner. For the price you can't regret picking up a bottle.
87 points
My first experience with M.S. was not good. My experience with scotch was very limited. I got vomited green banana peels on the palate. After 6 months of whiskey experience I came back to it. Now it has a buttery round mouthfeel. Sweeter than most blended scotches.