Style: Fruity and Vanilla Nose: Peppermint and heather layering on top, candy floss with fluffy vanilla cream one level down. Light touches of violets and chilli flakes. Soft icy vibe. Peat smoke sits in the middle and curiously it is a bit mossy and earthy. White flowers blossoming over solid tropical fruits while white timber…
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Style: Sherry and Spicy Nose: Juicy dried figs with sublime chocolate mousse (as the name has suggested) filling. Dark prunes with slight tartness. Ginger shreds and meaty notes swept under, blueberry jam beaming beautifully. Palate: Scintillating sherry notes with robust spice. Chocolate strawberry jam, honey figs, red fruits cake dominates the palate. The sweetness goes…
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Style: Delicate and Complex Nose: Fragrant and silky aroma on the nose. Begins with intoxicating sweetness and winey cherry rum cake and milk chocolate. Plums followed by slight bitterness and tartness of plum skins. A delicate layer of leather and pine oil glossing over heather honey, which is misted over by spirit peppermint. Gentle peat…
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Style: Sweet and Smoky Nose: Warm, rich almonds with a touch of signature meatiness on the nose. Subtle, dry maritime minerals clinging on the wave of vanilla meringue which is lightly smoked by the peat. Sweet plums painted with caramel sauce, dry black pepper crackling gently. Pleasantly balanced aroma. Palate: Sea breeze riding more on…
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[45%・24 Years Old・Silvano Samaroli Bottling・Cask 1252] Nose: Rose petals and orchards, the grassiness gets blended in like a roll of superfine wool, a tastefully maintained lawn on the front yard. Marzipan and other fresh orchard fruits complete the picture. Palate & Finish: A playful delivery, lightness dancing on the palate with green bananas and fruit…
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Style: Sweet and Spicy Nose: Begins with red currant candy shell around the Highland Park Malt. Within it we have heather honey, vanilla and lemon wrestled by robust peppermint spice. Flipping over to the drier side in comes black liquorice, hay stack peat and dry ginger. Aroma passive at times, but nonetheless a multi-faceted one.…
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Tasting Notes: The Arran Smugglers’ Series Volume I Style: Sweet and Spicy Nose: Begins with fragrance of ripe mangosteen, sourness of passion fruit, pears and other tropical fruits. Followed by nose-drying ginger spice. Cutting through it, we have some coconut vanilla ice cream. A hint of dryness, probably some smoke? But definitely a faint hiss…
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Style: Sherry bomb and Peaty Nose: Staggering sherry sludge flooding in – thick red fruits, jammy and immensely sweet. Minerals, match box and sand paper notes buried within giving a balancing dry tone. A rather briny core hides in the deep, sea breeze and mossy, hmmm, a hint of salted fish. A sherry curve ball…
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Tasting Notes: Highland Park Dark Origins ✔ [Recommended if you like the style/ distillery] Style: Sweet Sherry and Delicate Nose: A thick red fruit and raisin notes rolled in with dried chilli flakes on the nose. For an instance very faint scent of matchbox can be detected, slyly hidden beneath. Some smoke and camouflaged mineral-like touches lurking in…
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The wood influence is what shines the brightest on the nose, clean white oak shave with raw almond nibs with a criminally smooth sherry note. Candied ginger surfaces eventually with a citrus note from Chinese style aged lemon peels and a sandalwood note providing a lighter tone. Syrup drenched raisins and lemon marmalade delivered sleekly…
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