Straw yellow color with some sticky legs. The nose is red Apple skins and pear. Just a hint of tobacco. It's mostly fruit rinds and vanilla. The nose is firmly in the Scotch tradition. With a droplet some boiled vegetable sulphurics pop out.
The Apple skins and pear continue into the front of the palate. Has a very sweet, puckery second moment, like the syrup from an apple pie. Touch of leather. The burn is there but really dovetails nicely with some cigar tobacco. There is a fruity pucker that keeps coming back.
The finish is more tobacco, with a touch of smoke that tastes like a match that just went out. All those fruity parts evaporate and leave some smoke behind. This is a deceptively complex Scotch clone, I'll be back to it.
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@Bill-Shannon @bdanner everyone is a sucker for a good official cocktail suggestion. I collect booklets of the little tags of them they sometimes put on bottles.
I've got it backwards...you stir the whiskey 13 1/2 revolutions and the cocktail 3 1/2 revolutions. All clockwise. I had to make one last night to remember. It's automatic when I make it I've done it so many times.
I went back and looked and they've changed the whole ritual of the cocktail thing! It's not on their website anymore. I think it's because they're hyping their new Toki Highball Machine. If memory serves it's ice in the glass, add whiskey, 3 stirs revolutions counter clockwise, re-top with ice add club soda, then thirteen and a half revolutions clockwise. That's how I've been making them.
@BDanner I'm definitely doing this, including all the correct number of stirs. Why risk bad Karma?
Go to their website and try the highball recipe (with the symbolic number of stirs and everything). It is very good. Are the exact number and direction of revolutions while stirring necessary? I don't know, but I don't want to take any chances angering the gods.