It’s 2020. It’s December. Let’s shut this year down with a brand new whiskey (or whisky) every day. It’s my own personal whiskey advent calendar. +6! Dec. 9, 2020 Gaps in knowledge. For 7 years of my life I thought Bolleyball was a sport. For 10 years of my life I thought the word was pronounced “ex-specially.” For 21 years of my life I thought my mother pronounced “acorn” like a normal person. Point is: I’ve missed some seemingly obvious things before. So when a good friend of mine who enjoys making me suffer gave me this whisky, somehow I have for quite some time thought this whisky was a bourbon. And likely a bad one, because (again) my friend enjoys making me suffer. It wasn’t until I saw @ContemplativeFox bring it up as a blended scotch that I realized what I was sitting on. Thanks! Nose is fresh grass, orange. There’s some Granny Smith apples in there when you swirl. Big fan of this nose. Body is syrupy sweet orange. Not a great iteration of it. It’s a lite beer version of Delsym. It’s okay. Finish is a burst of baking spices. I like the way it explodes. Cinnamon, nutmeg, occasional cocoa. I think I still have some work to do when it comes to expectations with scotch. I more or less have a level of expectation going into any unknown bourbon based on distillery, source, age, etc. This whisky isn’t bad, but for me it’s tough to put in on the same playing field as some of the others I’ve been having lately. When you’ve recently had better iterations of all of these notes, what do you do with that? Perhaps that comes with the territory of blended scotch? I like this whisky. It’s nose and finish are my favorite parts. And I’m pleasantly surprised that my friend was in fact giving me a decent, enjoyable scotch. He must be losing his touch. ‘Tis the season. I’m day-to-day on my whiskey selection, so if you’re reading this and there’s something readily available out there you’d like me to enjoy/suffer through this holiday season, leave it in the comments. Merry whiskey to all, and to all a beer flight!