I feel like my role on Distiller is to provide an inferior quality review to the ones already given by the great @cascode. Yet again I am indebted to @cascode for the generously shared dram. This dram, as with many Cascode and I taste is probably unlikely to be tasted by the masses on Distiller. This here is a special release from Australia’s ‘The Whisky Club’ the worst subscription whisky platform out there. @Cascodes review has all the details so I wont bother with repeating them here. N: Light and bright. Lots of very crisp orchard fruit; apples, nectarines, and dried apricots. The orchard is backed by a light citrus zest and a slightly spiced cereal malt. I like this, very enjoyable and doesn’t step into an overly sweet territory. P: Sweet and warm up front. Plenty of building bakery spice this palate is driven by a fairly hefty barely sugar and slightly hot candied ginger. The official tasting notes have lots of fluffy descriptors that I don’t find but there is a slightly pancake feel to the malt and a slight floral note that I can’t put my finger on. Annoyingly I find the spice profile a little muting of everything else that might be here. F: Medium. There is an unexpected development of dark malt loaf (Soreen specifically if you have ever had it), a touch of dark chocolate and some silky texture. This is interesting, I think the nose on here is lovely, and the finish is an unexpected turn that is juxtaposed as winter against spring. The palate I’m meh about, sadly I found the spice to dominant. Individual elements, separated, and considered; make this above average. But on aggregate I think it lacks balance and cohesion. Thanks again @cascode, appreciate the shared whisky love. Distiller whisky taste #239 [Pictured here with a corundum (sapphire)-garnet-biotite schist from Zazafotsy Quarry, Ihosy District, Madagascar. This rock formed as a product of metamorphism of muddy silts 494 million years ago when the PanAfrican Orogeny started to assemble the supercontinent Gondwana. This rock is the product of a pretty intense and violent geological history including shear zones, hot fluids, temperatures of up to 700 degrees Celsius and pressures of around 5 kb. Turns out, if you smash the heck out of muds you can make some pretty remarkable rocks.]