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| Hello, that is one among our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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February 8, 2022
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Extra humorous whiskies from the remainder of the world |
| Aye. Humorous ones solely. |
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La Piautre 13 yo 2017/2021 (47%, Dumangin & Fils, France, ratafia champenois end, batch 014, 345 bottles) 
La Piautre are brewers in Maine-et-Loire, close to town of Angers, and have began making whisky too a couple of years in the past. To me it is a first. As for Dumangin, we have already tried some superb Craigellachie, Bushmills and Cooley grain, all completed in ratafia casks by them. Color: full gold. Nostril: summer-season Comté cheese, correct Gruyère, Fribourg, or any such very superior cheeses of their fruitiest variations. A bit of gunpowder too, steel polish, then sultanas and figs to calm this down, simply earlier than a floral aspect would seem, with gorse, dandelions, and simply wisteria and jasmine. I’d fortunately point out hops too however that may very well be simply because I do know it is a brewer’s whisky. Will get extraordinarily floral after 5 minutes. Mouth: no cheese this time, reasonably many roasted nuts, a bit burnt cake and bread, plus a bit bitter yoghurt, with bits of oranges. What we generally name ‘Greek yoghurt’. Finally ends up very dry and considerably amontillado-y. End: lengthy, on some sort of spiced marmalade and certainly, dry sherry and even Madeira. A bit of mustard within the aftertaste, in addition to very inexperienced walnuts, bordering bitterness. . Feedback: nice enjoyable right here. I suppose I now need to attempt to put my fingers on some ‘La Piautre’ whisky.
SGP:451 – 85 factors. |
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Aber Falls ‘Inaugural Launch’ (46%, OB, Wales, 2000 bottles, 2021) 
We’re now in Abergwyngregy, in an historic margarine manufacturing facility. It’s a single malt. Color: gold. Nostril: a really delicate, virtually peat-like smokiness plus an entire teapot of earl gray, in addition to orange blossom water and, naturalmente, panettone and its little brother recent Alsatian kougelhopf. A bit of custard too, plus honeysuckle in full bloom. Springtime in your glass (I used to be about to write down ‘in your tulip glass’.) Mouth: nearer to some American malts than to Scotch, however that could be the youth. A rye-like spiciness, some cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger from the wooden, then leaves and a humorous contact of radish and cress. It appears that evidently some fairly energetic wooden’s been in use, it is even a bit oxidative, not not like a younger oloroso. End: reasonably lengthy, a bit mustardy. Extra nutmeg as properly. Feedback: a reasonably good begin, I’d say. Prepared for the Six-Nation (the rugby model).
SGP:361 – 82 factors. |
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Since we’re in Abergwyngregy…
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Aber Falls ‘Autumn 2021 Launch’ (40%, OB, Wales) 
Bottling this at 40% vol., that is a bit daring. This child matured in oloroso, Pedro Ximénez, bourbon, and virgin oak. So long as they do not name it ‘4 Wooden’… Color: gold. Nostril: lighter however brighter, brisker, flowery and fruity, with some chamomile tea and certainly honeysuckle and orange blossom. In all probability additionally elderflowers, then simply pears. Beautiful huge fats ripe butter pears. Mouth: nearer to that inaugural launch but additionally brisker certainly, fruitier (apples, plums, additionally palm coronary heart), only a tad skinny certainly, particularly given the wooden regime. End: shortish, first on fudge and mirabelles, after which oak spices and oversteeped tea within the aftertaste. Feedback: the nostril gained some factors however the end misplaced all of them. I’ve usually observed that oak-boosted younger whiskies weren’t straightforward to cut back all the way down to 40/43 or generally even 46, and would usually get tea-ish and drying.
SGP:451 – 79 factors. |
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Mackmyra ‘Grönt Te’ (46.1%, OB, Sweden, 16,000 bottles, +/-2021) 
Think about this has been completed for nearly two years in ex-green tea liqueur casks! They’ve performed it, gentian is close to… (I hope). Color: gold. Nostril: good enjoyable. Many bitter berries and different small fruits, some curious touches of sake and even umeshu, some toasted bread with a cream-cheese unfold, caraway, gingerbread, and, no… this isn’t attainable… needs to be my thoughts enjoying tips on me (but once more)… gentian! And celeriac eau-de-vie. A particularly intriguing bitter/earthy nostril. Mouth: a bit on spicy oak, as we had anticipated, and reasonably on plum liqueur, as a substitute of that ‘inexperienced tea’ aspect that is generally to be present in younger ex-re-re-re-fill grassy Speysiders (taking a look at you, Cadenhead). Notes of prickly pears, apple peeling, inexperienced pears, chlorophyl… Properly, we’re all affected by synaesthesia not directly, are we not. The phrase ‘inexperienced/grönt’ alone mechanically results in inexperienced descriptors if you happen to’re not cautious. Why not pink grapefruits? End: medium, a tad drying and… teaish. Ooh my head. Feedback: nice enjoyable there. It is not that inexperienced.
SGP:451 – 83 factors. |
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Milk & Honey 2018/2021 (53.2%, OB, Israel, 7K Members Holy Dram, peated porter beer cask end, cask #2018-0909, 234 bottles)
Color: gentle gold. Nostril: smoked bread! Somebody’s stored some white bread within the trunk of a rusty outdated Jaguar for an entire day. What’s completely great listed below are all of the tiny herbs and berries that the remedy’s generated (not the Jaguar, the porter cask). Mistletoe and myrtle, cactus, tomato leaves, fig leaves, gin/juniper, artichoke liqueur, Fernet-Branca… As soon as once more, good enjoyable. With water: it could grow to be earthier, brisker as properly, extra citrusy too, with solely a drop of fennel liqueur. Are you aware fennel liqueur? Mouth (neat): punchy and tight, with some sweeter horseradish and yuzu, plus roots. Wild carrots and celeriac, let’s assume, plus a bit tar. The peat, I suppose. With water: extra bitterness, extra leafiness, extra bitter marmalade, artichokes, and only a contact of bitter tobacco. I get pleasure from this type of bitterness. End: lengthy, very leafy. Eggplant and Brussels sprouts. Smoked meats within the aftertaste. Feedback: this one’s a wrestler, you will not tame it identical to that. Forgot to say broccoli (I’m joking).
SGP:362 – 85 factors. |
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Mars 2016/2021 ‘Tsunuki Shinshu Getting old’ (60%, OB, Japan, for LMDW, Conquête, first fill bourbon, cask #3496, 210 bottles) 
I will say it once more, I perceive simply zilch in regards to the classification and naming they’re utilizing at Mars’s, all I do know is that the whiskies are sometimes excellent. All proper, all proper, this was distilled at Tsunuki, then matured at Shinshu. And at last tasted in Turckheim, Alsace (pff…) Color: white wine. Nostril: purely on a recent baguette round 5:30am. Millimetric, ultra-tight, high-precision eau-de-vie de barley aged in first-choice ex-bourbon wooden. With water: grist, dough and chalk, plus granny smith. Mouth (neat): very minimal, that is virtually barley on barley, as in Malevich’s White on White. I think about you may’t fairly make easier, extra excellent malt whisky. With water: citrus popping out. Solely grapefruits, in reality, this child stays very minimal. End: lengthy, on barley, grapefruit, chalk and inexperienced apples. Feedback: a elegant ultra-pure, minimal, virtually binary malt whisky, with a whole lot of real Japanness.
SGP:451 – 90 factors. |
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PX, new oak, ratafia, inexperienced tea, smoked beer… And pure ex-bourbon. Good enjoyable certainly at the moment.
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