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Style: Fruity and Complex Nose: Creamy red grapes and sticky date pudding sitting on top of a herbal base. Caramelized banana, plenty of tobacco leaves with a light peppermint flower overtone. Dark fruits reaches out and bind all the elements together. Strawberry Shisha molasses puffing out a faint smoky breath. A round and deep aroma.…
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Style: Sherry and Spicy Nose: Waterfall of heavy molasses, red dates, fig jam, strawberries, brown sugar all pouring over crystallized orange candy. Icy, green peppermint overtone while copper notes slipping under. Dry black peppercorn with a lick of dry oak staves. Palate: A pretty sip of muscovado syrup on the palate. Java sugar, citrus orange…
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Style: Hot, Fruity and Complex Nose: Immediate whiff of herbal overtone, a layer of peanut brittle followed by deep, round tropical fruits and confectionaries. Packing a fragrant but powerful punch. Peppermint and lavender notes sneaking under the hot wave, vanilla malt carpet rolled out carefully at the back. Fiery heat but it carries the aroma…
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[40.0%・NAS・Bottled in 2017・Official Bottling・Limited Release] Nose: A copper zing followed by a dose of light creamy barley, very much Irish and very much triple distilled. Quite a bit of white pepper along with hop inspired floral note on the side. Palate & Finish: Vanilla sugar licked with some swift spices, good presence of malt giving…
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Style: Sherry and Herbal Nose: Robust chilli spices fires up while pull pork notes knitting into heavy cranberry jam. Strawberries and cream, dark cherries, coffee jelly infused with herbal liquor. Balsamic vinegar overtone, faint grassy notes and cereal malt. Polished off with a subtle copper tone. Palate: Thick dark cherry trickling down on the palate.…
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[56.0%・NAS・Bottled in 2017・Official Bottling・Limited Release] Nose: A faint grassiness draws out notes of green lychees and heat rub. Beyond that it’s rather new make-y with quite a bare showing of barley husk. Palate & Finish: Neutral spirit sweetened by sparse hints of lychee and ginger flower. Juniper berries, green mangos and green papaya salad with…
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[54.0%・NAS・Bottled in 2017・Official Bottling・Limited Release] Nose: Definitely quite young with the new make characters still apparent, carrying an oily spirit style. The plum liqueur influence has a rather low tone, which is unexpected and a bit lacklustre. A faint ester-y fragrance of over-ripen fruits and rose petals. Interestingly enough the lower tone does promote the…
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Style: Fruity and Spicy Nose: Charming, cheerful fruits dipped into malt syrup. Green pears hitting the high notes, white pepper dusting down. Copper, a dash of apple vinegar, finish with dry spices. Palate: Spice arrow carries the juicy fruity core and shoots across the palate. Starting with clean orchard fruits, lightly stewed as we progress.…
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[57.8%・NAS・Bottled in 2016・Official Bottling・Single Cask Release of 518 Bottles] Nose: An overt sense of heavy and relentless darkness. Chocolate mud cake and marzipan dusted with a generous brush of almond sugar. Poached fruits absolutely drenched in toffee treacle that is slightly burnt, the syrupy nature engulfing hints of black tea, ginger, leather and black shoe…
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Style: Sweet and Spritely Nose: Delicate orange flower infused with a rich thread of mint candy. A rather tight and raw aroma which needs a bit of time to unlock. Once it opens up, malty, syrupy core, batter cupcake. A touch of acid pop, some coconut shreds. Sweet with an oily texture. Palate: On the…
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