Sorry all have been a bit ill.
163 – Springbank 2001 Rundlets & Kilderkins
Honey, plastic, caramels, grapes, vanilla cream, watermelon. Honey, cream, the bitterness of rocket, slightly ashy and medicinal, cherries.
164 – Cadenhead Glenrothes-Glenlivet 24
Sulphur, gas, maple syrup, wood, chicos, brown tea and hay. Salt, wood, rubber, maple, dried strawberries or maybe strawberry jam, brown sugar, rum, brandy butter, caramel, chocolate and LPG. So damn complex.
157 – Signatory Imperial 1995
White pepper, oranges, mulled wine, cloves, mineraly, heavy cream. Cream, cream, cream, dried fruits, xmas cake in summer, the final bite of a flap jack.
158 – Kilchoman Single Cask Sherry
Coke, cherry flavored medicine, slight bacon fat, a real heavy caramel on the nose. BBQ with Asian salad, orange zest. Wow!
159 – Douglas Laing’s Rock Oyster
Honey, spices, cucumber, vanilla custard. Cucumber, slight peat, slight pepper, honey.
160 – Springbank 17 Sherry Cask
Chocolate drops, raisins, oranges, prunes. Dried fruits, coffee and peat.
161 – Signatory Glenrothes 1997
Sulfur and rubbery, apple juice, plums and prunes. Green figs, sulfur and pepper, dates, dried figs.
162 – Signatory Clynelish 1997
Lemonade, marzipan, frozen Coke, mangos and passionfruit. Cream, passionfruit, coffee.
137 – Springbank Cask Strength 12
Rubber, fake Parmesan cheese, oil paint, glue, toasted nuts, toffee, sea salt. Charcoals, soot, bracken, toffee and coffee.
138 – Hazelburn 12 Sherry Cask
Toasted peanuts, oil paints, raisins, dates, honey, chestnuts. Cream, herbs, bone, bracken, peppercorns, salt
139 – SMWS 93.56 (Glen Scotia) Moby Dick meets Alan Titchmarsh
Rubber, glue, paint, vegetable stew, salted eggplant, tobacco, honey and turps. Seaweed, iodine, pepper, tobacco and honey.
140 – Springbank 18
Honey, leather, salt, pepper, clove, dry ginger. Green sticks, pepper, glacé ginger, slight salty butter, Xmas cake.
141 – Longrow 10 100% Proof
Glue, heather, clove, shortbread, flowers, lemon zest. Coffee, bracken, dry wood, flowers with rubber, rice flower, brown butter.
12 – Kavalan Solist Vinho
Cola, apricot and formic acid. Loads of vanilla. Tasty.
13 – Springbank Society Members 8 year old
Earthy chocolate, sugar cane, maple wood and dried apricots. Intense fruit sweetness on the palate to begin with candy cane, tobacco, herbaceous, lemon pepper, cream.
14 – Hakushu Bourbon Barrel
Banana bread, cloves and all spice, citrus, vanilla ice cream and formic acid. Fairy floss, banana flavouring and banana fucking milkshake, toasted coconut, even slightly cheesy notes and meringue.
15 – The Single Malt Scotch Whisky Tobermory 19 years – Whisky Exchange
Coconut rough, rubber and vanilla essence. Dried figs and dates, slight rubber and vanilla.
16 – Glendronach 1994 PX barrel 326
Melted butter, cake mix and brown sugar. Butter, vanilla, woody, rock candy. Huge and delicious.
17 – Balvenie Portwood 21
malted vanilla milkshake, dusty, banana. Vanilla and quite underpowered for me. Disappointing.
18 – Limeburners Tiger Snake
Really big hit of cloves, lime zest and ever so slightly dusty. Great palate of cola, cloves, vanilla and coffee.
1 – Springbank 10
What a great drop. I think in last year’s whisky newness I missed out on a few “classics”. Herbaceous and sweet vanilla nose some glue, smoke and straw. White sugar palate, some gentle peat, marshmallow, fruit and saltiness.
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