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Scotch Single Malt • First-fill bourbon barrel • Natural Colour & Unchillfiltered • €90 • WB🔗

Tasting notes from a 5cl sample bottle

Nosing

Flowery, grassy, melon, bourbon vanilla, white pepper.

Sipping

Starts off clean and refreshing: yellow apples, barley sugar, cream, vanilla, bonbons, with subtle smoke in the finish. The aftertaste is generic but very tasty bourbon oak, augmented with some caramelized lemon. A rather muscular spirit underneath it all.

Comments

Nothing at all wrong with this one. Though, I’m mostly tasting a nice bourbon casks and the dirty distillery character is not very near at hand, except that smoky hint.

Scotch Single Malt • Barrel • Natural Colour & Unchillfiltered • €95 • WB🔗

Tasting notes from a 5cl sample bottle

Nosing

So there’s freshness and funkiness, and peat. My main impression is a yeasty Belgian blond or sour, and a smoked Aecht Shlenkerla rauchbier. Raspberries, yellow fruit, coconut, and hay, farm animal (shit), and blue cheese.

Sipping

A certain sweetness and tartness. Heaps of ashy, peaty smoke. Malty and beery, yellow fruits (apricots etc), and ashiness.

Comments

It’s excellent. I’m at the moment quite into the ‘farmy’ side of Laphroaig, and less the coastal and iodine, so this expression is great for me. For variation I’d happily take a bottle of this in between Port Charlotte 10s as the peat monster on my open bottle shelf. But I’m hesitating at the price which is almost the double!