Bruichladdich

Ten

Bruichladdich

12 years, Second edition

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Brite straw.
Nose: Soft fruits. A very delicious sour fruite note dominates clearly: Unripe Apples, green grapes, redcurrants or gooseberries sugared very little. No lemon or citrus notes, but you could guess rich vitamines in this dram from this nose. Soft malt or caramel (vanilla) in the back.
Taste: Not sour at all; no more healthy vitamines ... The vanilla is much stronger here, same like cereal notes. A subtle sweetness and even a little smoke with delicious herbal wood notes which lead into a soft
Finish: Full and warming and not very long but very well balanced.
Conc.: A very fine and pleasant whisky very satisfying for a Laddie to fit my budget. Great fruity berry-nose...

Tasting date: 25/05/2010
Price in Germany: 34,90 Euro

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The Organic

Colour: Straw
A lovely fresh and fruity nose. Floral notes and hints of wax that come in addition after a few moments. Then come some smells of wet hay and the fruity notes (especially pears) are back in force.
The first palate is fresh and smooth. Then come pretty notes of pear, making me think of a young and not yet fully mature spirit. The mouth is not very complex but has no flaws. Here also freshness seems to prevail, making this an excellent aperitif whisky. A few degrees more would have certainly made the most good.
The finish is the perfect extension of the mouth. Notes of pears and freshness. By cons, it is quite short and vanishes after a few moments.

Color white wine

Farmy nose first. Smells of cheese on which jam fruit would have been spread. The fruitiness is more apparent with aeration, with a good amount of coffee and some woody taste.

Hot mouth. Taste of newsprint. Farmy smells are still present with a touch of menthol ash. Exotic sweet fruit thereafter. Good feeling.

Final some bitterness. A woody return and a slightly spicy finish. Long and persistent, but with finesse. And maybe the same farmy side as during the nosing ...

Nose: Wonderful balance with white and exotic fruits, flowers trees. Nice notes of candied citrus and marmalade. Freshly cut ripe melon, vanilla, spices and a small bakery side with bread and cereals.

Taste: Strongly fruity, vanilla (always this melon) mixed with flowers, spices (cinnamon, clove), cereals and some citrus.

Finish: Spicy, slightly woody with a slight fruitiness who emerges if we add a little water. It is slightly spicy. The finish is average.

Whisky with a wonderfull nose who gets even better with water and aeration. Too bad the mouth and final are a little below. A little too spicy and woody, but I really enjoyed it.

Nose: A nice balance between flowers (rose and a hint of purple) and fruit (white fruit). Influence of bourbon barrel for aging , the whisky seems still young to the nose, no more than 15Y.

Taste: Very tasty, greasy, a sweet brown sugar a little licorice. All remain under the sign of the flower in the mouth close to lychee alcohol.

Final: Pretty tough, exotic fruit, slightly metallic.

Nose: Citrus fruits on lemons
Mouth: Stewed fruits on aplles and pears with hint of fennel and anise. Bitter ans astringency.
Finale: Dryness, salt

N: upside down apple tart, caramel, vanilla, ginger, licorice, cold ashes
M: licorice, apple chard, peaty final
F: long licorice, cold ashes

Color: White wine
Nose: Pleasant, on the hazelnuts, cereals, sweeter notes of honey and it ends with a slight meaty impression..
After aeration one has touches of marzipan.
Taste: More basic than the nose, on cereal, honey and sweets.
Average final sweet.

Colour: Pale gold
Nose: nose first on the bitter almond, core brandy. Then abruptly changing notes on pastry, cake to the a little overcooked cake, toasted surface. Crust of bread cooked stale. The bitterness eventually fade. Notes of milk coffee , cappuccino, praline develop. This nose collapses after a few minutes.
Adding water does not have much influence on the nose.
Mouth: very sweet, creamy, a nice roundness. In the background appears as an echo of brandy fruit alternately cherry brandy or pear brandy.
With a little water, the mouth becomes more consistent and engaging, more easy drinkable, but it quickly reached the limits of surdilution.
Final: In no time, and somewhat astringent found in the very beginning of these final echoes of fruit brandy. Seems short at first and then after a pause, to redevelop with a little more smoke, fairly warm, and good length.
Water makes final a bit more bitter and less playful.

Comment: A simple whisky, pleasant, but nothing more. A little too wise, too polite, lack of foolishness to be exciting or even interesting. It is rather well done, (too) controlled, easy drinkable, a little lighter. A whisky drink for the summer

Color: White wine

Nose: The nose is first plant on cut grass. The dominant note is enriched with more intensive, although slight and subtle notes. Roasted hazelnut, almond paste are certainly in small quantities, but their presence nicely rounded corners. At the second tasting, emergence of bitter orange peel in large quantities.

Palate: The attack is fresh and invigorating. Many of greenness here, too, with a touch of bitter orange peel and a crackling sensation that feels a bit like a gin and tonic. However, it is to reproach him a lack of expressiveness, although it does not lack power. No marked change in the second tasting.

Final: It is of medium length, as an extension of the mouth, with bitter orange, which is more present. A taste of green apple peel eventually appear at the palace.

Conclusion: Despite the short finish and mouth a little flat, a malt of the most honest, even if it is not my favorite profile.

Nose: fruity (golden apple, pear), mineral, a little animal (wet dog)
Mouth: sweet and very refreshing (as with a Get 27), thistle with liqueur (kirsch + white chocolate?), menthol.
Finish: medium long and very intense on the gentian

Nose: Very pastry, the toffee, then the cereal (grain).
Taste: first and still the cereal and then quickly grape pomace and butter, ends on pear with a slight presence of alcohol.
Finale: Short on a very light cold tobacco

The nose opens with notes of lemon and bitter. In a fresh atmosphere and just properly framed, the nose then goes on
tobacco leaves notes that become dominant with ventilation. This nose
ends with a very light hint of peat smoke. After some
time, a touch of wheat and earth will emerge. More ventilation will bring pleasant smells of honey.

The palate begins with a dominant quasi-exclusive milk chocolate and
hazelnuts. In a strange grainy atmosphere, mouth leaves then
appear farm and bitterness notes. Ventilation allows in mouth to fresh fruit (papaya) notes to appear, followed by
honey and cut grass. Quite monotonous eventually.

The finale begins on wet grass, in a warm
(spice / pepper) mood, helped by a poorly controlled alcohol, too strong.
Ventilation quiet this end, medium length, that evolves into Gourmet notes of
coffee and praline.

In conclusion, poorly controlled built whisky, despite the
presence of very pleasant aroma.

Color: Pale wine.
Nose: A queer mixture between the softness of a slice of gingerbread, the tangy side of a kumquat, the fresness of orchard fruits (there's lots of apple juice in there), the damp grass in a field where cows have been staying for a little while (if you see what I mean...), and the increasing domination of a full plate of ham and cheese macaronis. Something like a waxed paper that would have wrapped a cheese Panini (sorry... no ads...). Really strange. When coming back to it a little later, these feinty notes are even more prevailing: My nostrils are full of "Laughing Cow" (or is it some old Salers?), mixed with some apple juice and mashed bananas. Pretty nonconformist, really.
Mouth: Hey, but that's not bad at all... The cheesy aromas are quite absent now. The Bourbon cask has done the job. The fruit is soft and clean. Reminds me of an "apple croustade" (a kind of puff apple pie we have down here in Southern France). The mouth is oily, waxy, delicately lemony. Develops on a hint of liquorice, and gets woodier, with a little spiciness (nutmeg?), and a slight bitterness like in a good Tequila añejo. More ooomph than the low ABV could let think (43%?).
Finish: Short, but tasty and flawless.
Comment: Reward to eccentricity for this puzzling malt. Spectacular or completely flawed? Up to you to make your mind. An experience that deserves to be lived anyway, if not buying a whole bottle of it.

Color: white wine

Nose: Floral and light. Very expressive, but I have felt a bad impression of fresh yeast.

Taste: I found these notes of yeast and their pungency. The palate is light and tangy. It ends with a feeling of butter.

Final: Sweet and short. I still find the bitterness of the yeast in the final.

Colour : pale gold

Nose : at first, very monolithic on camarelized pear pie and dry white wine. It then evolves towards hints of mint. Calms down after a while and gets closer to kernel and candy. Light hints of farm smoke.

Mouth : Pretty weak mouth on kernel and pear. A light acidity at first then bitterness. Hint of lemon.

Final : medium and quite bitter.

Conclusion : This maybe a tad too diluted for my taste, which makes the bitterness pop out, without the complexity. The nose is evolving (neat) but mouth seems stuck.

Nose: Fresh fruits, something farmy, cereals, haystack, with time a bit of unexpected chocolate.
Moouth: Cereals, vegetal, slightly farmy, iodine, mustard. The final is all the same, young.

Straw color.
Nose quite light, on fruit, particularly pears. Pastry. Somewhat complex. Cereals. A little vanilla.
Mouth slightly on cereal, slightly bitter. Some wood.
Final average, less intense, malty. A little fruity.

The first nose seems simple: fresh almond, pear, walnuts. With a little aeration, roundness appears with caramel, butter accompanying fermented sugar cane juice, in other words rum, and rare spices. And a lot of aeration adds a precise touch of eucalyptus, of fish with slightly exceeded consumption date, vanilla.
In the mouth it is dry and an almost aggressively start on spices, white pepper and evolves more precisely on the sweetness of the nose with pear and a touch more salt.
The finish of medium length, low-intensity remains the same notes.
No flaws, but I searched the interest of whisky and have not found ...

Appearance: Riesling
Nose: low to medium intensity, well integrated alcohol, malty, plants, old Grappa (means with roundness and without stinging alcohol of many young Grappas)
Taste: low to medium intensity, dominated by the old Grappa on a malted background
Finish: short
Conclusion: Basic whisky but with personality, pleasant also for non-lovers of single malts

Colour: Straw
A lovely fresh and fruity nose. Floral notes and hints of wax that come in addition after a few moments. Then come some smells of wet hay and the fruity notes (especially pears) are back in force.
The first palate is fresh and smooth. Then come pretty notes of pear, making me think of a young and not yet fully mature spirit. The mouth is not very complex but has no flaws. Here also freshness seems to prevail, making this an excellent aperitif whisky. A few degrees more would have certainly made the most good.
The finish is the perfect extension of the mouth. Notes of pears and freshness. By cons, it is quite short and vanishes after a few moments.

At first nosing, curdled milk, spoiled yoghurt, cereals, dates stuffed with almond paste and some spices. Then, the rancid feeling decreases in favor of a sweet tooth and spicy aroma.
The mouth is smooth, on the almond paste and spices.
The slightly acid final is quite short.
A young whisky, reduced, with unpleasant nose, in my opinion.

Nose: Paperboard, cereal porridge, white and yellow fruits (pear, quince), touch of vanilla.

Taste: Spicy (ginger, mild curry, vanilla). William's pear liqueur, a touch of citrus. Cereal bar.

Not really a bad dram, but the lack of maturity and complexity is evident, it appears to be closer to a new spirit than to a mature single malt. However, the potential seems interesting, the ingredients are in place to give quality older whisky.

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Emiel van Hilten

Nose: Soft, fresh and slightly spicy (like herbal tea). The nose also makes me think of elements of the forest (pine cones and some moss maybe?).

Taste: Lightly sweet, small bitterness and the influences of the wood. Again, a flavor that reminds me of pine cones.

Finish: Medium and spicy. A delicious tingling in the mouth.

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The Classic Edition 1

Color: Gold
The nose is relatively complex between fruity notes and a scent of cut nettles, less acidic than the grass, but very enjoyable. A very light woodiness appears, then a hint of smoke and the whole makes room within a few moments to beautiful floral notes.
Initially quite shy on the palate, the whisky slowly evolves towards metal notes first and then to woody ones to present and fimally to clear notes of coffee. Despite these developments, it is not particularly complex, but is very nice though
The finish is long and warm, dominated by memories of coffee. Well, roasted coffee beans that you bite ... hmmm

Color: old gold

Nose: The nose is clearly marked by sherry. I find notes of polish and a sense of sweetness. The nose is also marked by alcohol.

Palate: The palate is complex, with a nice alternation between the spiciness of the alcohol and sweetness of the sherry. I found hints of chestnut honey and maple syrup

Final: good persistence. The finish is quite delicate. The sensation of alcohol disappears to make room for roundness, with a "jammy" side recalling honey and syrup which was present in the mouth.

Nose: Chocolate milk mixed with a little citrus and exotic fruits. A can of nuts. Light on rancio and sea.
After breathing, melon appears.

Taste: Sweet and fruity (tropical fruit). Bakkery, with a slight salty sea side. It is sweet with a nice balance.

Final: Sweet and fruity on the nose (same aromas than the nose). Milk chocolate and hazelnuts. A sea of softness.
Long but a little light, the final.

My favorite at the first tasting. A little below on the second even if I did not notice any big difference.

Gold color

Nose slightly sharp and fresh. It starts on a note of wood. It is fairly unobtrusive. Fruit flavors come later, and gradually make room for a note cereal and yeast

Fresh and spicy palate. Weird, I feel a taste of wheat flour, yeast. Moreover, it has a particular texture. This is not no repulsive, but strange. The fruit of the nose are slowly confirmed in the mouth.

Final rather long on a slight bitterness. The taste of yeast in the mouth comes then back.

Nose: on sherry, then lightly wooded apricot.
Taste: First Corinth grapes, then the cherry stone, wood and licorice.
Finals: Averaged over the stick of licorice and cold tobacco.

Colour: Old gold, teak.
Nose: nose first on the sulphurous smoke and cocoa, dark chocolate, red fruit, cherry, "Mon Chéri". Very greedy. Slightly licorice. Seem venerable.
The addition of water weakens the nose, but harmonizes even more, makes it even more charming, somehow.
Taste: sweet, creamy, subtly Alcoholic, melted.
A few drops of water are enough to graze the surdilution.
Final: Light at the beginning, then moving on to be closer to the mouth and is reminiscent of rum.
Just as the mouth, the addition of water weakens the final.

Comment: Greedy, charming, very pleasant, very easy drinkable, if not very complex. A nice fade, harmonious as well. The water is not recommended.

Nose: Red fruits (strawberries)
Mouth: Strawberries jam, peache, tickling from strengh casks. Hint of sherry.
Final: On peaches and apricots

Nose: Sweet and floral, grass and dried flowers on a creamy caramel. Light new spirit which directs me to a young whisky.

Taste: It remains on the flavours announced by the nose, grassy hops. Always sweet notes that set the tone.

Aftertaste: Dry and medium long, a grassy side. Too bad theat the cask did give not given it a more woody and bland side. This remains a good dram, I'd like to taste a more mature whisky from that distillery.

Color: Deep amber.
Nose: There's some sherry in there, but rubber band strikes first. Lots of rubber band. To much rubber band. Quite some dry fruits as well. Roasted almonds, skin included. Praline. Reminds me an early teenage Glenrothes. Then the wood becomes more prevalent. Acridity of charred wood. Licorice and ammonia. Salmiak. After a while, softens on th fragrance of warm cake, plum soaked in Armagnac, and orange marmalade. And perhaps a dash of grenadine syrup.
Mouth: More ooomph despite moderate ABV (46%?). Simpler than the nose, but at the same time more attractive, more consensual. Orange marmalade has replaced the rubber band, which just appears discreetly after a while. Creamy and well balanced.
Finish: Long, marked by a classy bitterness of citrus peel.
Comment: A very decent though somewhat stereotyped young sherry Speysider. And to much rubber on the nose.

N: hay, pear and apple fruit, vanilla, sweet caramel
B: white pepper, apple, sugar candy
F: long pear, apple, vanilla

Nose: polish, old furniture, probably a sherry cask, dry. Apparition of hot tire marks (or burned) thereafter. Wood burned too. White pepper. Less typed the 2nd tasting: more oriented soap. I wonder if the seal of the sample I got was not playing tricks ....
Taste: greasy texture, not very expressive, especially the toasted notes (match / tires). Interesting over time Herbaceous with a few herbs which are difficult to discriminate.
Final: average vanilla (Yarrow)

The first nose show clearly the sherry dominance this whisky.
Beginning with wet grass, it quickly leads to a very
sherry, wood and chocolate mood. Despite the prominent sherry, the nose is pretty cool, gladly mineral. Ventilation allows fresh fruit notes to appear at the beginning (pineapple), while ending with Chili flavours. Well built, but nothing extraordinary.

The palate confirms the nose. Beginning with woody notes, it turns
rapidly towards gourmet flavors of sherry and milk chocolate.
Then a hint of peat precede the appearance of a bittersweet and hot (Tabasco) flavor, quite enjoyable. A well-balanced palate, although
relatively smooth.

The final is on sherry and spices. Of medium length, ventilation brings notes of hazelnuts, going to very warm mood, which will be confirmed by notes of
red fruits jam and milk chocolate.

In conclusion, a charming whisky, warm, fairly complex, but not
showing anything extraordinary to get him out of the lot of sherry-typed whisky.

Color: Gold
The nose is relatively complex between fruity notes and a scent of cut nettles, less acidic than the grass, but very enjoyable. A very light woodiness appears, then a hint of smoke and the whole makes room within a few moments to beautiful floral notes.
Initially quite shy on the palate, the whisky slowly evolves towards metal notes first and then to woody ones to present and fimally to clear notes of coffee. Despite these developments, it is not particularly complex, but is very nice though
The finish is long and warm, dominated by memories of coffee. Well, roasted coffee beans that you bite ... hmmm

Amber color.
Light nose, sweet. A bit vinous. A little sweet. Yellow fruit / ripe white. Sherry notes. Wood.
Soft palate. Slight bitterness. Light fruity. Some wood.
Final fairly long, sweet, sour, woody. Apples.

Colour: Old gold

Nose: The first nose is alcoholic. Let's give him some time to aerate. It opens gently smells burnt plastic and rubber which are mixed with mineral notes of baking lemon (Brioschi Effervescent Italian). The latter fade quickly to make way for a smooth blend of Indian spices. No significant change in the second tasting.

Taste: The palate is soft but not lacking in power. Rubber and sour notes are the game. Sherry is also present, although it is far from a sherry monster. The sour notes have disappeared the second tasting, giving way to a green fruitiness .

Finish: Quite long, but somewhat spoiled by the sharpness of the alcohol back then. It grows on a still green fruit.

Conclusion: A malt interesting, somewhat complex but not easy to define.

Appearance: yellow gold
Nose: low to moderate intensity, alcohol limit disturbing at first nosing, changes to an alcoholic freshness after 30 minutes of breathing, green tea, fruits of the undergrowth
Taste: low to moderate intensity, sweet pepper, linear, fruits are most evident in the end of the mouth
Finish: short
Conclusion: Fairly basic whisky, consensual, pleasant to drink

The nose starts on the cereals (porridge) and raisins soaked in rum (hint of alcohol). I also feel a certain sweetness, sweet wort, almond paste, and a dusty side (old cloth/old paper). After aeration appears a little nuts aroma.
The mouth is slightly sweet and tastes like a mix of cereals and nuts. The overall seems a bit rough. The finish brings a slight of bitterness and a relatively simple and short final.
A young whisky, reduced, without much personality.

Nose: Needs time to open, young sherry. Hint of sulphur that are not irritating. With time, moccha, raisins, orange.
Mouth: acid, young fruits, young sherry, mustard, grassy, raisins. The final is quite agressif, acid, mustard. Too young.

Color: Dark Gold

Nose: very little expressive. One feel the almond or marzipan. A slight scent of wet grass or straw. Finally, it evolves on notes of honey mixed with alcohol. Provencal herbs.

Taste: A mouth that enhances a bit the level of the nose in terms of expressiveness. However, there are hints of straw very farm, a slight taste of carrot soup. Alcohol is not too present. In contrast, there was some bitterness hints and a little smoothness in the finish which compensate .

Finish: quite short on sugar and oaky bitterness.

Whisky without a true personality, quite medium. One can find some nice touches but the whole lacks some character.
The addition of water drops will not improve the dram.

Color: Deep gold
Nose: Floral, on the nuts, candied fruit and discrete spices.
After aeration some autumn fruits appear.
Mouth: slightly expressive, Cereal and marzipan.
Short finish and some alcohol impression.

Nose: Demerara sugar, caramel, roastedor flambe fruit (apples, pineapples, citrus fruit), cinnamon, brandy and water and also some not very pleasant artificial notes (cardboard, oil?).

Taste: Very sweet, fruity, pineapple and flambé banana with rum, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, you're more into the world of rum than whisky! Tip of Kahlua, very rich, but a little sickly... more reminiscent of a complete maturation in rum casks or sweet wine tthan a finish, cask dominates the whisky too obvioulsy.
May be interesting to accompany a meal or an exotic dessert ?

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12 years. Authenthic collection

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Wilson & Morgan 1993

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Creamy Charlie 1993

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Coopers Choice 1991 Port Wood

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Port Charlotte PC5

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1992 Sherry Pedro Ximenez

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1992, sherry Fino

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Fifteen, second edition

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Ian Hunter

Strong nose...slight peat with floral notes. First taste, full bodied, lively, complex. Finishes long...that slight peat is constant drom start to finish, I find it adds to the overall taste.

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale goldNose: Quite clean first impressions, a lightly peated nose with a hint of leatheryness, some plastic elements, linen and fish stew. The diluted nose becomes more burnt with some coal-gas which was barely noticable in the straight dram. Aniseed, mustard and salted oysters blend with some mossy water and a fresh, interesting tangerine smell.Body: Medium, slightly heavierPalate: Sweet start, mouth filling and pleasant. Quite gentle and clean to start with, there's a slightly earthy flavour which then becomes vanilla-like and slightly kippery. The finish is very long and salutes a very nice dram.

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Port Charlotte, 3 years, Private Bottling

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1979-1997

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13 years, Raw Cask

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Blacker Still

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15 years, 1986-2002

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Squat cask 1990

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Prenzlow Portfolio Collection 1966

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PEAT

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Brass.
Nose: Very fresh and easy with delicate citrus fruits. Grapefruit marmalade. Fine wooden notes, the peat is in my impression more the direction of Campbeltown than Islay whiskies, more in a woody or floral than a smoky way. A very fine and subtle salty sea weed breeze to round the picture.
Taste: Peppery, more peaty and chemical than the nose suggests. The nice floral and fruity notes are a little pushed back by the now more dominant peat but they can easily be put back in place with some drops of water.
Finish: Very round and firm and lasting a good, long and pleasureful while. Now the chemical impression mingles most beautifull with a pinch of brown sugar, black pepper, bitterroot and the clear traces of seaweed. A fine and very varied and still balanced finish.
Conc.: The nose and the taste make a fine whisky. But this finish makes it a magnificent dram.

Tasting date: 26/05/2010
Price in Germany: 40 Euro

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Port Charlotte 2002-2007

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Waves

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Golden Brass, beautiful reddish glints, Scheurebe (remarkably there is no colour needed for this beautiful shine).
Nose: A very fine and subtle fruity approach – Let’s see if I get them all: Peaches, red winegrape juice, cherry jam, dried bananas, hazlenuts and marcipane backed by very delicate smoky and salty roast bacon notes and a soft limey zest. Very appealing and delicate. One of those noses to make you sorry to take the first sip.
Taste: A firm, malty and schnappsy entrance (kirsch), it is nearly impossible not to be softly disappointed after this delicate and multilayered nose. The fruits step back and give room for nuts, marcipane and fine bitter wooden notes. The peat takes a step forward, the schnapps gets softer and leads to a (again) very beautiful and round ....
Finish: mingling between bitter wooden notes, soft peat and crushed white pepper. Medium long.
Conclusion: This is a exceptional dram according to my book: There is nothing missing and the a little rude entrance on the palate can easily be absorbed with a wee drop of water. Perfect price ratio.
Date: 19. May 2011
Price in Germany: 30 Euro

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1988, 20 years

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Rocks

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Octomore 03.1_152

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Octomore 04.2 / 4_167 Comus