While Rittenhouse may put a smile on your face, it's not because it tastes funny. This rye whisky is quite good. Here are my notes:Nose: Maple candy, marble rye bread, caramel, vanilla bean, oak. Taste…
Tasted a glass of the CV tonight at the pub. It is perhaps a flawed dram in terms of the way all of the elements comingle in the glass, but I was charmed by it. The smoke is quite nice and I was surpr…
Best blended whisky I've ever tasted . . . by far! Had a glass last night. If anyone knows where I can buy a bottle of this stuff, it would be great to hear from you. Nose: Fresh made marshmallows,…
Nose: Grass, sea salt, gypsum. Palette: Pralines, Greek yogurt, carpet glue, hay bales and slight hint of grassfire smoke. The mouthfeel is thin and invasive, gathering unpleasantly around the teeth and…
The nose invigorates: a very pure nose, heady, with peat that cuts through and yet is not overpowering. None of the tar-like character of Ardbeg. And I should say this older Talisker is more heady and…
I've heard tell the nose on this one is full. Wrong. It's not, but it's quite pleasant: Koffee klatch, dark chocolate, oaky goodness, smoking peat curling round an elf's little chimney somewhere deep in…
Finally tasted a glass of McCarthy's. Available at the Highland Stillhouse. I think I will hold off from buying a bottle for $55, I think. A bit steep for what I tasted. If it was ten dollars cheaper,…
Opened my bottle of OP21. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. In fact, I've actually not always liked some of the bottles that Murray has lauded and heaped praise on, in the past, and so my hopes…
Nose: Anjou pear, wild onion, honey comb, slight hints of Pappy Van Winkle 20, summer air down by the deserted railroad tracks in summertime near the Willamette River when your nose is young and keen,…
Nose: Raspberries, clover, sugar wafer, white chocolate, honeycombPalette: perfect delivery, holds off and then gently swells to a crescendo: clover honey, pistachio ice cream, cashews, halvah, moonbeams…