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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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August 30, 2022
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Yet one more wee journey across the globe
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Ranging from France…
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Armorik ‘Yeun Elez Jobic’ (46%, OB, France, +/-2022) 
That is peated Armorik and Armorik is the actual pioneer of Breton (and French for that matter) whisky – if you happen to do not take some very small and considerably unlikely earlier operations under consideration. They have been utilizing Scottish malt peated to 50ppm. Color: white wine. Nostril: near Ardmore, so relatively ‘lighter’ than what these 50ppm instructed, however nonetheless clearly a peater, recent, ashy ala CI, with some mint and a few lemongrass. Some chalk too. It is clear, a tad uncomplicated, and but very nice. Mouth: actual good, fairly candy, peaty and peppery, with some candy apples and pears. This time we’re considering of peaty Benriach, even is comparability is not purpose. End: lengthy, grassier, with relatively what we typically name a ‘farmy peat’. Feedback: completely all proper, simply (most likely) slightly younger, with edges which might be nonetheless slightly tough. Some progress for positive since final time I attempted this expression.
SGP:467 – 80 factors. |
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We might attempt one other, gentler Armorik…
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Armorik ‘Sherry Cask’ (46%, OB, France, +/-2022) 
We had tried a ‘sherry end’ at 40% vol. again in 2012 that was nonetheless a bit hesitant, however I do know there’s been large progress since again then, usually talking. Color: mild gold. Nostril: good and cakey, I would even dare point out kouign amann, that great Breton cake that is shock-full of butter and caramel. Apart from that, we’ve the same old walnut cake, which I at all times love, raisins, honey and dried figs. It is excellent simple sherry, and full-maturation this time. Mouth: superb, basic simpler sherry certainly, with slightly extra citrus on the palate, marmalade, vanilla, honey… Nothing to throw away right here, quite the opposite, we’re in the identical league as that of the youthful sherried Scottish malts. The well-reputed ones. End: relatively lengthy, slightly tenser, fruitier, with some mandarine liqueur (Mandarine Napoléon) plus honey and fudge. Feedback: works very effectively.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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To Switzerland, with one other loopy Säntis…
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Säntis 7 yo 2014/2021 (64.9%, OB, Switzerland, for Whisky Picnic Bar Taiwan, previous beer cask, cask #2132, 84 bottles) 
And it is a peater, at that, let’s fasten our seat belts… Color: darkish brown. Nostril: nice enjoyable, as usually with Säntis. For instance smoked burnt pinewood infused in cough syrup and Marmite. Water is obligatory at such energy. With water: a lot gentler. Principally, it is turn out to be darkish toffee, which is at all times most fulfilling, in fact. Now there’s additionally relatively lots of darkish moist pipe tobacco, Captain Black and all that. Mouth (neat): what!? They’ve first burnt truck tyres, apparently, then let simmer bits of them in a heated mixture of anti-rust paint, lapsang souchong and fir and tar liqueur. Not for the faint-hearted, that is for positive! With water: oh superb! Prune liqueur, oranges, smoked meats and burnt wooden, coal tar, pine liqueur, juniper and clove… That is excellent, so long as you get pleasure from ‘completely different’ whiskies, together with very daring ones. End: very lengthy, a tad drying and gritty, tea-tannic (good one S.) And hurray, Marmite is again within the aftertaste. Feedback: these are simply by no means boring.
SGP:475 – 85 factors. |
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Lough Gill 17 yo 2004/2021 ‘Athrù Single Cask Launch’ (56%, OB, Eire, chosen by Or Sileis, cask #0406109, 287 bottles)
Color: deep gold. Nostril: recent, on melons and guavas, with hints of elderflowers and jasmine, plus slightly hand cream or girl’s moisturiser. A bit of paraffin. With water: a household pack of wine gums, infants, crocodiles, Jesuses, bears… Mouth (neat): relatively a fruit bomb, with baggage of melons certainly, guavas as effectively, and certainly a big pack of bonbons of all types. A bit of robust. With water: will get completely simple, on a big fruit salad and a very good glass of all-vitamin juice. End: medium and at all times as fruity. Williams spears this time, maybe, cantaloupes, pomegranates… Feedback: very seductive and correctly Irish. Bushmills isn’t actually far-off… (so far as types are involved). I discover it glorious.
SGP:751 – 86 factors. |
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To Taiwan! Which jogs my memory that we’ve a great deal of Kavalans and Omars to attempt…
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Holy Distillery 2017/2021 ‘Salvation’ (64.2%, OB, Taiwan, virgin cask, cask #16, 300 bottles)
We have tried an ‘Superb Grace’ by Holy Distillery two years in the past, it was very all proper (WF 80) and gave us religion and hope (of their whiskies). Color: reddish amber. Nostril: it is nearly a liquid kougelhopf that might have spent fairly a while in your oven. Truffles, cedarwood or pencil shavings, toasted almonds, black turon, brownies… With water: extra cedarwood but nevertheless it’s been underneath management, this isn’t cedar juice (neither is it cigar juice). Probably one of the crucial ‘Asian’ noses on the market, which in fact I really like, it jogs my memory of my travels and of all of the superior Buddhist temples I might go to, in China or elsewhere – even when it is most likely not precisely the identical type of ‘holiness’ that is in play right here. Mouth (neat): candy and spicy. Plum and prune wine aged in oak, rooibos, caraway and ginger, pink resins, blood oranges… With water: superb, with a sense of triple-sec aged in oak. Pretty spiciness. End: relatively lengthy, with many oranges and spices, particularly cloves. Orange-and-clove plus espresso within the aftertaste. Feedback: fashionable whisky with correct character, extraordinarily effectively mastered. You see, fashionable wood-driven whiskies usually are not all the identical, in spite of everything.
SGP:661 – 86 factors. |
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