12 – Spring Bay Bourbon Cask 2016 Cask #34
Nose: pine resin, wax, mango skin, orange zest,
Palate: Egg pudding, passion fruit, grass, white pepper, tropical, lemon
Finish: vanilla cream
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13 – Spring Bay Sherry Cask 2016 Cask #28
Nose: maple syrup, chocolate bullets, toasted wood, butter, dates, corn chips
Palate: dusty, rhubarb crumble, brandy snaps, melted butter, dried vines
Finish: wet stones, cream, bitter herbs
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14 – Spring Bay Port Cask 2016 Cask #54 “The Rheban”
Nose: baked plum cake warm out of the oven with cream, stewed rhubarb, vanilla sugar, almond crunch
Palate: grape sweetness, plums, plums, plums, coffee, roasted almonds, apricots
Finish: vanilla cream, pavlova, stone fruit
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15 – Belgrove Wholly Shit Rye 57.8%
Note – this is a whisky where the rye has been “peated” by burning sheep dung. Yeah it’s pretty nuts.
Nose: Grassy, spicy, new make, cocoa powder
Palate: So intensely burnt corn (but in a good way), woody, dark chocolate, wet stones, grass
Finish: Dark chocolate, old bonfire
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