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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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December 9, 2021
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As soon as once more, the whisky world is ours |
| Let’s examine the place the chase will lead us right this moment, what’s positive is that we’ll take off from France… |
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Eddu 17 yo 2004/2021 (49%, OB, LMDW, France, Cognac cask, cask #184, 250 bottles) 
That is pure malted buckwheat whisky from Bretagne/Brittany, thoughts you. In my very own little e-book, buckwheat positive is a cereal. It is like artwork, it’s artwork whenever you see it as artwork (undecided that applies right here, S.) Color: gentle gold. Nostril: great, lighter, sweeter, fragrant, with melons, peaches and pears, then a bit of lavender ala rye whisky, poppies, hay, barbecued liquorice, tangerines, woodruff, wormwood, verbena… This can be a fairly wonderful perfumy nostril, you’ll additionally consider the effective of us at Christian Dior have distilled it. I’d suppose the peaches and the pears got here from the cognac cask, although. Mouth: cognacsky or whiskgnac? Feels fairly meta certainly and when blinded, I am undecided I would not have mentioned ‘cognac!’ Raisins, peaches, melons, cassata, panettone, earl gray, grenadine, raisins, granny smith… End: medium, very fruity, fairly gentle. All-fruit western fruit juice, ice-tea, peaches… Feedback: a category-breaker, nearly a ‘political whisky’. Is that this actual whisky? What’s positive is that I am discovering this metaspirit pretty much as good as I am discovering Zuck’s metaverse BS completely awful.
SGP:641 – 85 factors. |
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Damaged Bones 3 yo ‘Peated’ (46%, OB, Slovenia, batch #2/21, 2021) 
We had relatively preferred the unpeated model of Damaged Bones the opposite day. This has been partly matured in ex-Scottish peated wooden, however it appears that evidently the barley they have been utilizing had been smoked too. So, it’s not solely a awful cask-smoked whisky as others, together with some Scots, are doing today. Color: white wine. Nostril: gentle smoke, hearth, burnt magazines, pancake dough, salsify, turnips, ashes… This positive is not disagreeable, only a tad dry. Mouth: hey, gentian, celeriac, wild carrots, radish, chartreuse, dill, fennel… Nice enjoyable right here, even when we have in some way left whisky territories. If you distil good roots (responsible as charged) that is what chances are you’ll get. Caraway. End: relatively lengthy, very aniseedy and mentholy. Extra celeriac and celery. Feedback: Feedback: I’m all for this, as I cherish something earthy, natural and rooty. Nice work, Slovenia!
SGP:572 – 84 factors. |
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Oxford Rye 2017/2021 #004 (51.3%, OB, England, bottled for IF Oxford Science & Concepts Pageant) 
Sounds as critical as Mr Bean, does it not. Significantly, love what they do, we simply need to suppress any pictures of Boris J. Trump from our thoughts. Color: gold. Nostril: pretty spicy and floral rye, stuffed with poppy bread, lavender, violets and caraway. With water: carrots all over. No, actually. Mouth (neat): superb, with some spicy oak after which extra lavender, liquorice, caraway and, maybe, a bit of an excessive amount of oak this time. A tad sawdust-heavy. With water: no, we’re effective, even when it is getting a tad too custardy for us. End: relatively lengthy, with good roots and maybe a tad an excessive amount of oak. Feedback: yeah a tad quercus-heavy, however in any other case recent and proper on rooty and earthy rye. Maybe this with smoked salmon? Or on scallop’s carpaccio, with Szechuan pepper? Good enjoyable, good spirit, simply overlook about Boris.
SGP:551 – 81 factors. |
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Starward 5 yo ‘Apera cask’ (52.4%, OB, for LMDW, Australia, cask #1870, 240 bottles, 2021) 
From a 1st fill apera cask. To be trustworthy, I used to know what an apero was, however had no concepts about an ‘apera’. Apparently, apera is a type of Australian sherry produced from palomino. All proper then… Color: gold. Nostril: candy. Apricot bread, nougat and cassata. Some crystallised tangerines. With water: sawdust, vanilla, semolina, tapioca… Mouth (neat): very oaky, spicy, concoctiony. Deep drying tannins. With water: some tropical sweetness at first, then quite a lot of gingerbread, then some drying oak spices. Slightly an excessive amount of for me. End: lengthy and a bit of plankish. Slightly too IKEA-y. Feedback: effective however the oak’s relatively an excessive amount of within the entrance for me.
SGP:351 – 75 factors. |
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Milk & Honey 2017/2021 ‘Ex-Islay Cask Conquête’ (64.5%, OB, cask 2017-0328, 233 bottles)
This does not make any type of sense, come on, an Islay cask in Israel! However whisky’s not about logic or rationality, whisky has no limits, whisky’s about transcendence and love. No? Color: white wine. Nostril: younger Laphroaig in your nostrils. Inexperienced crabs, mercurochrome, bandages, iodine, brine, kelp, all that being solely a wee tad muted. With water: pears! Good enjoyable to see the unique distillate making it to the entrance. Mouth (neat): I might have referred to as this Milk & Honey & Peat & Pepper. Massive peat certainly, massive pepper, and admittedly, at 64%+, it is a bit of, cough, ach, a bit of scorching. Big pepper, pepper sauce, chilli flakes… With water: stability has been achieved, because of quite a lot of Vittel (WF’s official water – they paid for my new Bentley thoughts you). Younger Laphroaig made in Israel, actually. End: lengthy, with lemons, menthol, eucalyptus and a grittier grassiness. Feedback: whisky from Ilslayel, actually. Excellent, a bit of unlikely, mindboggling, unsure, questionable, and but superb. Very properly accomplished, M&H!
SGP:465 – 86 factors. |
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