pkingmartin
Whiskey Del Bac Dorado Mesquite Smoked Single Malt
American Single Malt — Arizona, USA
Reviewed
March 28, 2021 (edited July 30, 2021)
On the nose: starts with fresh campfire surrounded by spruce trees, then smoked apples, smoked vanilla cupcake, smoked caramel and smoked chocolate covered toasted marshmallow with light ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting with mesquite smoked barbecue (short ribs, brisket), then smoked apples, smoked chocolate covered toasted marshmallow leading to barrel spices and smoked leather with a medium ethanol burn that finishes medium length with smoked beef short ribs, smoked chocolate covered toasted marshmallow, smoked apples and smoked vanilla cupcake.
I’m not sure if I said smoke enough to describe how smoky this one is, but this tastes like someone just got a smoker and decided to treat the family to a full smoked dinner but to be sure it was smoky enough they smoked everything for 16 hours and then poured artificial liquid smoke on top of everything. There are a lot of great flavors in this but that smoke, for me, is just overwhelming all of them.
Big thanks to @ContemplativeFox for the generous sample of this for tasting.
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@pkingmartin in that case , thank god I’m not a smoker...I’d be going through a pack a day
@PBMichiganWolverine That onslaught was too much for me but I can see this work really well for my brother-in-law who smokes things for days.
@ContemplativeFox Haha, much better than Mosaic.
Personally I loved that punch in the face with smoke—yeah, potent and unbalanced complexity, but I kinda liked that onslaught.
Yeah, I found it to be off-balanced too. Glad you liked it better than the Mosaic though :P