Starts on avalanches of dried fruits, jams and honeys and gets then beautifully drier, much more on leather polish and tobacco, with some smoke in the background and a little metal polish/old tool. Also something curiously medicinal that hints at Longrow – but Longrow didn’t exist at ...
Overall, the structure feels finer and fruitier than some of the other famous Jamaicans, which lean a bit more towards ‘doom metal’ than WP’s classic hard rock (what?). Okay, not Appleton. With water: oh, scallops cooked in Noilly with little Chinese mushrooms. And there you have it...
Overall, the structure feels finer and fruitier than some of the other famous Jamaicans, which lean a bit more towards ‘doom metal’ than WP’s classic hard rock (what?). Okay, not Appleton. With water: oh, scallops cooked in Noilly with little Chinese mushrooms. And there you have it...
So Limburg's Whisky Fair is taking place this weelend and I thought we could do a wee session that best symbolises what's usually offered there, that is to say a joyous mixture of great old and brand new bottlings (and friendship!). Sadly (cough cough) I caught a cold and it all ...
Nose: yeah, metal polish, old walnuts, cigars, grandma’s tin boxes, pu-erh tea… This is immediately ten times more complex, and complexity in whisky ought to be cherished and preserved. With water: hazelnut oil and artisan chocolate. Nougat. Mouth (neat): marmalade, tobacco, cinchona, ...
‘evolved’ peat, that is to say a combination of engine oil with metal polish and old turpentine. Also some tar, some Barbour grease, shoe polish, old cigars in a long-forgotten box, Maggi, old books, camphor… At the fruit department, not much left, except some overripe bananas. Not...
Where else would you find this kind of combination of metal polish and ink with fresh fruits both western and tropical? Ripe mangos and apples plus a fistful of old coins wrapped in today's Wall Street Journal (whatever). Add a little mustard and there, you have it. It's a very ...
Superb. With water: as usual, more tobacco, leather, plum pie and just hints of metal (gun). Touches of cranberry juice, gingerbread. Very elegant. Mouth (neat): yessss! No excessive oakiness, no invading tannins, no heavy spices… Rather red berries and raisins, chocolate (lots), ...
Yeah I know, vastly exaggerating again, but the complexity in this is nowhere to be found in any contemporary malt whiskies. Oils, metal polish, old coins, moss, mushrooms, malt, orange liqueur, honeydew, pine needles, leather polish, fern, damp earth, bitter oranges, tobacco, teas… ...
... Wait wait wait, now it’s coming, old engine grease, coriander, shoe polish, old cellar, metal (old tools), then a little eucalyptus, mint-flavoured tea, rocks… What a lazy b…. thank God I gave it a little time! Mouth: waaah, it really woke up now, and I don’t know ...