Massive thank you to Brave New Spirits and to Steve Rush for another great Whisky tasting with a rum addition.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the Glen Elgin, but who doesn’t enjoy a port finished whisky!
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Single Barrel Australian Rum
Palate: Sweet, thick & syrupy. Concentrated flavour needs water. Spicy and Hot alcohol. Golden syrup meets a ginger cake.
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Single Barrel Australian Rum
Nose:
Potent! Vegetal, damp hay & grass. Oak, some hints of walking past a nail shop. Golden syrup oat bars then golden syrup sponge pudding. Elements of grain whisky
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Finish: Bitter, Mike chocolate cocoa, hazelnut.
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Palate with water:
Apple & pear, cinnamon & cardamom. Wax, orchard fruit pie.
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Palate:
Sweet, sugary, honey nut cornflakes.
Apple & grape skin, dried hay. Orange oil.
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8 Year Inchgower
Nose With Water: More savoury, but still sweet. Dried herbs, candy floss, apple, cinnamon & ginger
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Nose: Fragrant & sweet. Sugar icing, floral, touch petrichor, camphor, cardamom, waxy,
kumquat skin.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Palate with water - sweet & sour, strawberry & cream boiled sweets, pear juice, cinnamon & nutmeg.
Dry and bitter finish.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Palate: Sweet & syrupy. Berry jam. Apple & blackberry pie. Orange & almond oil.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year
Nose with Water - Sherbet, summer berries & cream.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Nose: Dry sweetness & herbaceous: spices of liquorice, sarsaparilla & clove. Faint berry jam.
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North British 13 Year Old
Finish: oak, dried hay, chilli caramel.
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North British 13 Year Old
Palate: Sweet grain, Varnished wood, burnt caramel, maple & vanilla. Toblerone Chocolate Bar!!!.
Damp cardboard. Black Pepper
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North British 13
Nose With water there was an intense golden syrup that lingered in addition to the prior notes.
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North British 13 Year Old
Nose: Sweet grain, vanilla & caramel, Freshness of a Citrus mousse, then comes Dried Hay.
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Royal Brackla 12
Finish: dry, bitter & malt.
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Royal Brackla 12
Palate: Dry apricot, peach crème, malty biscuits, touch of a metallic copper tang.
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Royal Brackla 12
Nose: Herbal & spices. Faint lemon meringue, Carmel coffee latte, woody, hay & earthy.
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Spey Fumare Cask Strength
Finish: bitter cocoa & oak with lingering citrus tang.
I do love this expression.
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Spey Fumare Cask Strength
Palate: Sweet, earthy peat with burnt vanilla with a smoky lemon rind. Stewed Apple & Pear with candied ginger.
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Spey Fumare Cask Strength
Nose: sweet barley & vanilla with earthy smoke threading its way through. Creamy custard with a coriander seed. A menthol freshness sits at the end.
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Spey Trutina CS
Palate with water: More zesty freshness, more caramel & lemon.
Finish: Caramel, creamy toffee and bitter.
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Spey Trutina CS
Palate: Sweet & syrupy. Pear drops, caramel, orchard fruit. Peppery. Creamy toffee. A sweet shop. alcohol kick.
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Spey Trutina CS
Very pale colour
Nose: Expressive with fruit (citrus) & sweet esters, hay, cream soda, lemongrass, floral. Gin like nature. Alcohol suggests some heat.
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Spey 12 Year Old
Finish: Dry, bitter oak, chocolate tart.
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Spey 12 Year Old
Palate: Sweet but thin. Cherry milk chocolate, madeira cake, rum n raisin chocolate, coffee, anise & liquorice.
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Spey 12 Year Old
Nose: Sweet treacle toffee, floral & fragrant like a spring evening in a meadow. Herbal, hay, rum n raisin ice cream, anise, clove & liquorice.
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