Springbank

10 years

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J.L. Zamora

Nose: refreshing, herbal, menthol, sea air. Palate: refreshing, toffe, spicy mint and late salt as if it was a question of a spray. A complex whisky where they are and a drink that must not get lost anybody .

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Johannes Sauer

C.: Very pale, white wine
N.: A very strong and zesty nose in the beginning: Almost chloroformical, biting, with a hefty spritty, alcoholic attack. Later, after leaving the glass for a short time, a very different picture appears: It's not alcohol anymore domanting the nose, this is the most oaky nose I ever experienced. Deep beneath there are layers of friuts, coconut (pina colada) and burnt sugar surrounded by the oak.
T.: Very firm, but after this nosing-sensation the first impression is a little bit one-dimensional. No caribbean cocktails anymore, it's oakwood again. After adding one drop of water, there is far more complexity to discover: Bitter herbs combined with a very flattering sweetness (creme brulée) and cocoa powder.
F.: A big herbal crescendo, medical, ! very long traces of a very cheerful bitterness (radicchio).
Not having the pleasure to try the older bottling mentioned, I can state that this is a dram very worth trying.

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale straw
Nose: Quite closed to begin with but with some encouragement it lends lots of nicely balanced aromas with an interesting complexity. Warm but not very prickly. There are some fresh fruits with ground pepper and some aniseed (reminicent of Ouzo) on the background. A nice toasted oak hint is also present, reminds me in some way of a hot steaming bath and also a hint of brylcreem or possibly bubble gums. Reduced dram lends some impressions of green plants and heather flowers in addition. A second dram revealed more maritime hints together with the distinct peppery-ness.
Body: On the lighter side.
Palate: Continues the nice impressions left by the nose. Potent and mouthfilling, well balanced and pleasant. It! feels sweeter than I expected with some interesting candy-like like elements. The finish is quite long and becomes drier as it shifts from a earthy or mossy dampness to a spicy oakiness.

Springbank

10 years 100 Proof

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Dark (dirty) gold, olive green glimmers.
Nose: The first impression is that of a hefty malt note which bounces me nearly off my feet. Very firm. Lots of dark chocolate, burnt caramel and malt sweets. Also roasted whalenuts and a beautifully rounded smoky background.
Taste: Very full, warm and also far more smoky and peaty than the nose would suggest. The 57% rolling in with some emphasis but even without water it is a very enjoyable dram. With water there are more soft floral notes and again strong hints of dark malt and brown sugar.
Finish: One finish full and rather long for a whisky of that age. A incredible full and soft sweetness mixes well with bitter wooden notes.
Conc.: A truly great Springbank and a standard in itself, this was the last sip of my bottle of the older bottling, soon I will have a new one and we will see and taste if something has changed...
Tasting date: 09/23/09

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Old gold with amber huesNose: Fresh and fruity aroma with citrus and lavendar. A certain sea-like saltyness like stranded seaweeds and a delicate smokiness, like a smokehouse in the port. Not as much prickle as one might have expected. With water another type of smokiness appears, most reminicent of sweet pipe tobacco. Also lemon zest, red gumdrops and some pine forest hints.
Body: Medium
Palate: Very round, long and complex. Starts dry and shifts to sweet then back again. Mild fruits with a certain acidity in the beginning, winegums. Then an explotion of taste- lavendar, apple wine and calvados and a delicate oakiness. The finish is long and has elements of an oak aged white wine. It's drier with water.

Springbank

12 years

Springbank

12 years

Springbank

21 years

A very nice nose, with hints of coconut and beeswax, exotic fruits and spices and curiously discreet, hints of coffee. The palate is very fresh and beautiful complexity. The finish is long and warm, with nice hints of coconut and a sense of calvados in the background. After a few minutes, notes of coffee from the nose to surface.

On the nose, very fresh, with fruity notes reminiscent of both apple and coconut on a background of very light smoke. A very complex nose. In the mouth, coconut and calvados are very present, with hints of spice and clearly a little dry. A final long enough where all the scents and tastes are reviewed. An excellent whisky.

At the second tasting, the same first impression of being in front of a brilliant bottle. A little malt mixed with a little salt. Exotic fruit blend subtly enough to slight hints of spicy smoke in the mouth. An outstanding final in its length and the pleasure it provides.

The first impression is good ... as is often the case for exceptional whisky. The nose feasts on all the aromas that blend in this very complex and balanced whisky. The palate detects both spicy notes mingled with the malty sweetness while detecting slight hints of peat and iodine. The finish is exceptionally long and pleasant.
A wonderful bottle price as only negative. A counselor at all, but unfortunately not within reach of every budget.

Springbank

18 years

Springbank

12 years, Rum Wood

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale gold
Nose: At first a powerfully dominant acidic fruityness with bubble gums. Develops more complex and deeper scents. Some green house hints, pine nuts, toasted bread, smoked caviar, ethyl alcohol and a nice smokiness behind all that, mostly smoked saucage. Diluted dram is dominated by sweet apple cider but also has barley sugar, rice pudding, marzipan and sandalwood.
Body: Medium, soft
Palate: Curious. Powerful and warm throughout with some raisins, apricots, coconuts and unfortunately a few sickly off notes in the background. Not enough to be really unpleasant but enough to irritate. More pleasant with water but a little less interesting as well. The finish is long and has lots of pink pepper. Very good despite the slightly sickly character! present some times.

Springbank

13 years Port Wood

Springbank

12 years, Bourbon Wood

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale gold
Nose: At first a powerfully dominant acidic fruityness with bubble gums. Develops more complex and deeper scents. Some green house hints, pine nuts, toasted bread, smoked caviar, ethyl alcohol and a nice smokiness behind all that, mostly smoked saucage. Diluted dram is dominated by sweet apple cider but also has barley sugar, rice pudding, marzipan and sandalwood.
Body: Medium, soft
Palate: Curious. Powerful and warm throughout with some raisins, apricots, coconuts and unfortunately a few sickly off notes in the background. Not enough to be really unpleasant but enough to irritate. More pleasant with water but a little less interesting as well. The finish is long and has lots of pink pepper. Very good despite the slightly sickly character! present some times.

Springbank

12 years, Claret Wood

Springbank

175 anniversary

Springbank

12 years, Cask Strength

Springbank

14 years Cask Strength "Jazz edition"

Springbank

Longrow 10 years

Springbank

Longrow CV 2008

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Gold green (no colouring).
Nose: In the beginning very easy and appreciable, with an accent on the floral note. For me no "peat monster" at all, but there is a great development toward very spicy herbs (Angostura). Forest flowers, freshly cut wood, coniferous trees show up.
Taste: Digestif, very medical, like a very strong and very well rounded herbal bitter. Bitterroot, myrrh, grapefruit peel and radicchio. Very beautiful and enjoyable for me and anyone who likes bitter spices. Later a very nice cocktail note appears which gets stronger if you add a little water: Brown sugar combined with limes (caipirinha with a dash of angostura), campari-orange.
Finish: Like a good bitter, this finish is very very long, this very pleasureful bitterroot note makes love to you! r tastebuds for hours.
Conc.: They say this is a specially peated bottling, and I cannot find it peaty in the traditional Islay way. There are worlds between this dram and any Islay-malt I ever experienced, but this opens for me a whole inspiring new dimension to the term "peaty".
Tasting date:Oct/25/2008 Price in Germany ca 40 euros

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Henrik Johansson

Date of tasting: 8/2 2009
Apperance: Pale Gold
Nose: Roasted almonds and buttery popcorns. A light wiff of paint, oatmeal and old wood. Round and pleasant to the nose with a light burnt note, hay and fresh, dry smoke. With water a distinct leatheryness comes out- cowhides and new leather bootes. Also a slightly solvent fruityness and bubble gums. Really very pleasant and complex.
Body: Light to medium
Palate: Round and pleasant with a nice complexity. Good balance with no elements becoming too dominant. It starts out very light and develops clean and mostly green flavours. Semi dry, lightly peaty, vegitative, the smoke is most reminicent of lightly roasted wood. It could have been longer and a little more intense.

Springbank

Longrow 18

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Very pale GoldNose: Softly mellow, warming, pleasant and quite closed to begin with. Grilled maize, a soft and salty sea breeze. Almost a little dull, but hinting at something more. Comes alive with a little water added, fresh oranges, red apples, raw potatoes and grassy notes comes out. Some almonds, old wood and sweet white wine in the back. Just the slightest hint of medicinal peatiness.Body: MediumPalate: Starts out very cooling and with better intensity than the nose had. Good balance of fruits, cereal and winey/nutty hints. The finish is long and pleasant with some woody hints, sea spray and some soft highland peat.

Springbank

Hazelburn Fisrt Edition

Springbank

Hazelburn aged 12 years

Color: Brown
The nose is clearly marked by sherry, with nice notes of eucalyptus, prunes, a veil of smoke. In short, a nice nose and pleasantly complex.
The mouth is full of contrasts. At first sweetness, a hint of bitterness, an exuberant fruitiness and then some notes of blackcurrant and throughout the tasting, a great pleasure.
The finish is long and hot, and all flavors of the mouth are ironed reviewed.

Springbank

Un-chillfiltered collection 1989

Springbank

Cask Collection 13 years - for Potstill Austria

Springbank

Berry's own selection 1992, Peat-smoked

Springbank

Best Casks of Scotland, 1996

Springbank

16 y.o., Rhum finish

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale goldNose: Refreshing straight nose with good complexity. Solvent fruity elements with a hint of burnt sugar, vanilla, white chocolate and lemon-lime soft drink, maybe some malted milk. Some sea spray with dilution, but still a predominance of solvent, fresh and citric fruit elements like pear drops, peach sweets, bubble gum and rum-toft. Also some cut paper and perhaps a very light mossiness.Body: Medium, sticky tearsPalate: Starts on the dry side but imediately becomes sweeter. It develops some burnt sugar and eventually some of the acidic fruitiness found in the nose, but not as dominant. The finish is long and extends the impression left by the nose. Good balance and enjoyable, well composed.

Springbank

1989, Stills of Scotland

Springbank

1997 Vintage

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Greenish, dark straw (mahogany bleached in the sun), softly glowing, few small particles are dustlike floating – needless to say: Non coloured, non chill filtered
Nose: The first impression is very firm and spirity. But later there’s fruits and smoke in the most beautiful combination I ever experienced so far. Dark chocolate praliné, also not missing is the typical Springbank soft salty note. With water added there appears a even more differentiated picture, Melon, grapefruit and thick charcoal smoke.
Taste: Very impressing, bitter medicine, lime peel, burnt caramel (creme brulée) and cedar wood incense. Also there’s melon, cucumber and seaweed, all this backed by a subtle and very and enjoyable sweetness (brown sugar).
Finish: Rather short, the sweetness quickly giving place to some nice herbal bitter notes, which, alas, vanish after a few moments.
Conc.: A very great Springbank, but I’d love to have some more remaining impression on my tongue.
Date: Feb/04/2009
Price in Germany: ca 59,00 Euro

Springbank

1997-2008, Batch 2

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Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Deep Gold
Nose: The maritime flavours are present in this one along with mixed fruits, bubble gums and nicely softened winey and oily notes with good balance throughout. Immediately detectable is some rubber, like pencil erasers, also fresh sea-spray, fennel and suntan oil. After a while, more sherry aromas emerge but not to the point of domination. With dilution it becomes much sweeter with fruit salad and candy, perhaps a hint of bananas and the lavender in the background. Great complexity, amazingly good.
Body: Medium
Palate: Starts almost sour but shifts. Good weight and intensity. Very sweet in the swallow with lots of nice fruity elements. The finish is long and winey with elements of dry oloroso, sweet fruits and tingling spices. Fabulous dr! am with amazing balance. Top notch!

Springbank

1993, Cuvée

Springbank

CV

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Brite golden.
Nose: Nifty and zesty. Strong wooden, even mostly metallic (rusty) notes. Black tea. Few hints of sea salt.
Taste: Surprisingly soft on the palate after this hefty nose. Now it’s very strong black tea, served with rock sugar and lots of milk (the Friesian way). Also very subtle leather and smoke.
Finish: Even now still clearly defineable black tea combined with delicious herbal notes, lingering on the tongue for a good and vey pleasant while.
Conc.: A great Springbank right after the first few sips far up on the list to my favorite every day drams.

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

Colour: Bright golden, light straw.
Nose: Firm but delicate first impression, heather honey and mowed grass. A fine subtle sweetness backed by very soft, hardly noticeable notes of sweet pipe tobacco and wood berries. Nice and very pleasant, altogether a little far on the sweet and honey side but round and well balanced.
Taste: The alcohol rolling in with some might, for sure more than 40% (or is is the early time of the afternoon? I could not wait starting my first blind tasting session), still sweet and light floral and the delicate soft smoke in the back takes one small step forward. With a little water the single impressions (honey, grass and sweet smoke) get more clearly separated and are nearly perfectly balanced.
Finish: Fine round and medium long, at the end getting a wee stronger accent on the smoky / woody side (the water helps here) which leaves a very nice whole impression. Summer afternoon in the forest.
Conclusion: My guess is a Highlands / Speyside (Lowlands?) malt and not an average one. Very fine whisky anyway. Maybe a independent or special bottling at round 46 or even more %. No meddling with sherry or wine casks (ex bourbon might be) here. Around 12 – 14 years. I see, guesswork might be right or totally wrong but are lots of fun...

Colour: Straw clear, thin and regular legs.

Nose: At first, the nose is very beguiling, sometimes with fruit orchard fruit (apple, pear), sometimes delicately floral. Heather honey and waxy light. Then he quickly gives way to hints of lemon and a slight acidity. Then it shows us its muscles a bit but not too much, with a thin peat. A bit of bread. He concluded with avery pure mineral profile, beautifully wrought. Hmm just a roller soaked with dew, that's it!

Palate: Oily, very powerful. Smoke. Pungent. With aeration, it becomes much more rounded and easy drinkable.

Finish: Long, intense. The smoky, leather, dark chocolate and mocha. A very manly profile! Salivation slightly sweet.

Comments: An iron fist in a velvet glove!

The nose offers a beautiful blend of flavors in a medicinal and mineral mood. There are lemon, tar, cold ashes and ferns. Everything is very well blended and complex as desired. Power is also there. Great job. Aeration confirms the beauty of the nose, which is enriched with marine flavors and spices (pepper), all in an atmosphere now a little more wooded and wet.

The mouth takes a long time to unveil its full potential. The first meeting is indeed very disappointingly flat, on cereals and a strange taste of pasteboard, we could expect more. Aeration reveals a different face. First on tar, after a little sweet and sour sensation, that mouth properly boned then evolves with notes of citrus (lemon) and cereals, with a bit of peat. It remains below the nose.

The finish is dominated by smoke and spices. Long, it lets appear after aeration coolest notes (mint) and woodlands. Finally, peat. We found this beautiful harmony between flavors we spotted on the nose again.

In conclusion, a very good whisky, melted and complex as desired. If the mouth was of the same ilk as the rest, it would have been perfect.

Nose: Citrus galore, Williams pear, melon and fresh bread. Alcohol well integrated, beautiful balance. Sweet.
Emergence of new make notes after aeration.

Taste: Sweet and acidic. Very fruity. Lemon, spices. Beautiful balance. Appearance of mint after aération.

Finish: Vanilla, fruit, lots of spices, melon. The length is average and descends slowly.

Whiskey not very complex but pleasant to drink thanks to good balance, its fruitiness and alcohol well integrated.
I found it a bit worse after aeration.

Colour: Pale gold
A smell of ash with vague hints of dried fruit as the first impression on the nose. Later, it evolves to slightly more pronounced fruity notes, but the smell of cold smoke or ash continues to dominate. Pleasant, but certainly not very diverse, this nose is not very complex but still well balanced.
The palate is immediately more exuberant that his nose. Away from the austerity of cold ashes , it has nice farmy notes here and the smoke seems to have awakened. No exuberance, no explosion in the mouth though. A nice balance with tastes close to each other, impressions of milk chocolate, slight fruity notes together with nutty hints.
The finish is very pleasant with notes of cigar box. It is long and continues to hope the momentum of the mouth: both very present and very delicate. This final dissipates after a few minutes, leaving a light impression of nougat.

Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: At First, we have small yellow stone fruits (mirabelles), quickly catched up by soft phenols. A gentle coastal breeze. Probably a youngster (12yo ?) but not bad at all. Rather pungent despite an ABV that probably hardly reaches 46%. Then turns spicier, with lots of pepper and candied ginger. Loads of candied ginger and quite some vanilla from the oak. And something quite organic now, like a mix between freshly cut cider apples and slightly rancid butter. Strangely, it took a while for grassy notes to arise, but here they are. A cereal field after the rain, and maybe a little stale beer.
Mouth: Very clean attack. Phenols are present, but nicely sweetened by soft liquorice. Citrusy. Orange peels. The mouth gets then mellower and bolder at the same time, proof that it doesn’t always require lots of alcohol when it works well! Well integrated, it seems more mature than on the nose.
Finish: Long, tasty, and unexpectedly slightly cofeeish.
Comment: A very clean and tasty malt. If you like gentle yet not overwhelming peat with nice citrusy notes, ans a slight farmy character, this one is made for you.

Light gold color
Metal nose (smell of cut metal to the grinder) and slightly farmy. Alcohol is very present, not repulsive, but it's just the limit. It gets a little earthy and fruity (sugary fruit). The metallic side is always present and is very enjoyable. Finally I like. After the aeration it gets really more earthy but a very dry earth and perhaps a little iodine. Coffee and dry straw point their noses towards the end of the tasting. Over time, perhaps a hint of yeast.
Woody mouth (taste of wood dust that can be found in a carpentry) and fruity. But it is a rather remote fruitiness that we must search well. And besides, it makes me think of apple green candy. It has a soft attack. Hmm .. It does not follow the nose in terms of accuracy and richness, it is a pity! Perhaps a bit of tree resin. Some notes of dried straw are also present. Adding water does him no good by any cons. It becomes flatter.
Final: fresh attack. Present and round. Prolongs the mouth but fresher. It becomes even more pungent subsequently in with a taste of licorice.
Comment: Well excited by the nose. A little less by the mouth, which is a little too hard to discover, and the final. But I think it's still a very good whisky with a very interesting nose.

Colour: Pale gold
Nose: Powerful, it is not in the lace. Iodine, lemon, very iodized, very lemony, salty ... Oysters accompanied by Margarita, especially as bitter and vegetal scents can evoke a Tequila appear. A lot of bitter almonds and minerals (talc) as well. Oh, I forgot to mention the peat. It is fine and delicate, well behind. It has proved much less expressive in the second tasting. The water, however, enables it to regain some color.
Palate: The attack is softer than expected, almost watery, but that feeling does not last, and a powerful wave lemon and salt hits the palate. It is also developing a nice minerality that is dominant in the finish, erasing the other aspects.
Finish: Long, peaty and barely bitter, pleasant and refreshing.
Conclusion: A simple but effective malt. Its lack of complexity is partly offset by the balance of aromas and freshness. Attack a little more frank would allow him to earn a few extra points.

Nose: A very pleasant peat interlaced with barely ripe raspberry. Leaving it time to open, grassy character is revealed along with scents of leather. All seasoned with a touch of acidity.
Taste: peat profile is present, an oily peat and lemony, slightly bitter. The herbaceous character is present, but in the background. Even the whisky keeps a reduced profile, strong, but a new-spirit aftertaste bothers me a bit. For me a whisky from probably some ten years at most, reminds me a bit of Kilchoman tasted on Islay. Rather young whisky but with a good profile that should make its big brothers very attractive.

Nose: Lots of peat, fat peat. After aeration some iodine and marine notes appear, but very light ones. Alcohol is fairly quiet, well-integrated.
Palate: True to the nose. Peat still present, pleasant and not intrusive.
Medium final on peat and iodine.

Whisky well balanced, focused on peat which dominates but does not hinder.

Colour : Hay

Nose : We start nicely with ripe pears, peat and white pepper. We go on with whiffs of fresh orange juice. Hints of eucalyptus and pine candy. After that, confit lemon, a little bit of salt and pralin. We finish with hints of soap and syrupy white wine. It's very nice, straight forward, peppery and does not show too much alcohol. Nice whiffs of peat.

Mouth : It's rich, creamy, on "crème brûlée" with brown sugar. It's smooth and a bit peppery. We find again hints of pear with syrup, caramel (almost syrupy rum). Nonetheless, it lacks a bit of dynamism to my taste. Maybe it was too strongly diluted. We still are on this pastry and creamy side, like a praline cake. Some notes of cooked cherry (clafoutis). We find a farmy peat at the beginning, but no salt and no smoke. After a while, hints of white wine and praline. At the end, a light taste of wood.

Finale : Medium, smooth, on caramel extracts and fresh butter. A light peat and a subtle taste of wood.

Conclusion : A pretty fine whisky, pretty subtle, but too diluted to my taste, if it is. We may have missed some complexity. It's still a nice dram.

appearance: straw, wide legs flowing moderately fast
nose: moderate intensity, alcohol present but acceptable, indigenous fruits, spices, sweet maltyness, grain
Taste: low to medium intensity, we find the same spicy / fruity blend throughout the taste in the mouth, a touch of acidity adds to the end
finish: short to medium
With water: a bit more of sweetness on the nose and in the taste, even more easily drinkable, water is not needed but does not harm
conclusion: This whisky is not very complex. Its major advantage is that it's dangerously well drinkable. Warning: Can

At the beginning, it seems relatively classic, malty, pastry, fruity (white fruits), while the nose develops news aromas, a hint of chocolate and clean cow stable.
The mouth is good but classic too, more sweet. I don’t manage to recognize the exact aromas…
Nice, I particularly like this wild side (clean stable).

Light straw color.
Very pleasant nose with notes of citrus, grapefruit and lemon overtones. I feel a dawning fine and fresh peat. I note, however, vegetal after opening a somewhat disturbing side.
Mouth with an oily texture and a hint of smoke that disappears quickly. This whisky is surprisingly soft on the palate with woody notes of white fruit and a little minty. The roundness trumps all.
The finish is medium. It is more of a sense of texture on a range of aromas accurately. The hint of peat returns marginally with the retro-olfaction.

Colour: Golden yellow, greenish silky sheen.
Nose: the first nose is vegetal, with a "green" pungency, juniper,bitter spices .'The nose isa little weakening on the same notes and then a bit remains constant.
Adding water adds a touch of lemon that gives life the nose.
Taste: very oily, pretty neutral . Tingling and slightly acidic. A little bitter and sour, but light and contained. Mouth rather smooth, but quite difficult to indentify. A little spice, touches of coriander. A subtle hardly noticeable veil of smoke .
Like the nose, water improves the mouth by reducing the bitterness and leaving piercing spice and lemon.
Finale: In the immediate extension of the mouth to the point of merging with, it is quite short and of low intensity.
Adding water does not change the profile of the final, but gives it more power and length.

Comments: A little disjointed and difficult, dry, it becomes much more pleasant after the first drops of water, both more harmonious and expressive.

Nose: On the lemon, wax, white fruit (peach dominates), then the kumquat and haribo sweet!
Taste: You feel the grain first and then comes the lemon, a little tar, spicy. Alcohol is too present for my taste!
Finale: Medium, marked by alcohol and peat.

Nose: At first a bit of plastic, not like it, slightly vegetal. With times, becomes more fruity, soft.
The mouth is very soft, young, acid drops, salty with time.

N: floral, intense, a caress, accurate, then comes the honey, not exuberance
in a second nose was fruity and light (white).
B: the same low profile, floral, white fruits, alcoholic significant power (too?), After a while your mouth gets better and increases the length is not bad.
F: very short at first, the elder, and good length on the palate and balanced.

Straw color.
Nose: slightly fruity, slightly malty. Alcohol is a little bit present. It seems quite young. Vanilla. Very light smoke.
Palate dominated by caramel. Some cereals.
Final medium, less intense. Malty, slightly spicy. Light smoke.

Nose: vanilla, spicy, fruit orchards, a delicious side (tart with apricot, peach melba?). Light peat, fresh vegetable, smells a bit like campaign, hay.
Not unpleasant but a bit like simple, lightweight.

Taste: More than peaty the nose, spicy, salty, vegetal, appetizing tonic, slightly astringent.
Then rounded, woody notes with vanilla custard and a nearly final citrus tart.

A moderately peaty malt obviously young, friendly but lacking depth and complexity.

Color: Yellow

Nose: A discreet peat, a little smoke. Butter as well. Something a bit "metallic". Notes of grilled chicken.
After aeration, for something a little flowery adds to the smoke (lilac? lavender?) A islay?

Taste: Surprisingly bitter ... Still peat and smoke. Also notes of gasoline. From the ashes of the cigar. For my part, rather watery, way too bitter and lacking in complexity ...

Final: Rather warm, mid-long "hot", ashtray notes and a lot of bitterness ...

Color: Gold
Nose: Notes of citrus fruits, lemon and oranges, delicate hints of vanilla, smell of fresh oak, floral tones mixed with fine spices... and buttery.
Taste: Very smooth, I've added no water, spicyness comes forward, little bit of white pepper combine with vanilla as found in the nose, hints of citrus in the background.
Ending: Medium long, spicy, tingling at the sides of the tongue, hints of vanilla but no floral notes remain(surprisingly)

NOSE: quite gentle but rather complex (fruit, sweet spices ....). Gently pastry (shortbread). Discrete burned notes (second-fill sherry?).
Mouth: oily attack with a mixture of bitterness and slight fruity sweetness. Sea touch?
Finish: fairly short and not more expressive than the mouth. A bit alcoholic.

It does not tell enough things to my taste, even if it is easy drinkable ... and it is fairly balanced.

Color: straw yellow
Nose: Very fine, first floral and then moving on ripe fruit.
A good dose of spices, nuts and a little pepper.
Palate: the mouth is less elegant, steeper than the nose, dominated by cereals.
Notes of marzipan, spice and dried fruit.
The water makes it more balanced and brought some fruits in addition.
Final medium, on the tastes we had in the mouth.:)

Springbank

Longrow. Single Cask for the Nectar

Colour: Very pale, white wine.
Nose: The first impression is the one of fine, soft peat, combined with fresh fruits (green apple) and wood preservative, like a freshly painted wooden garden hut. Sawdust combining nicely with fine floral and herbal notes. Nothing irritating or disturbing in this maybe a little biting nose, it announces strong alcohol, might be a cask strength bottling.
Taste: Yesss! The cask strength is confirmed here on the palate. Nearly same as described in the nose, fine nifty peat, but not too pushing at all, less fruit but more wood and sawdust. With water added finer and more complex notes of dried fruits (banana, figs, walnuts) show up.
Finish: Beautiful. Herbal and bitter in nearly every region of the tongue. Mingling and mesmerising for a good long and pleasant while.
Conclusion: Very fresh and young, maybe no great dram but a very nice whisky for every lover of peated and wooden notes. Hard to guess if it is from Islay or one of those new well peated Speysiders. I think, I’ll tend more on the sea side, but am not able to tell a distillery, I guess this is no standard bottling (if it is, I am very curious). Exactly my cup of tea, glad to get this bottle...

Nose: Young whisky straight from the belly of his drum. The nose is still very "new-spirit". Very fresh, peaty, sweet and fruity, a subtle balance of the three. If it is a batch and not a "single cask", the combination of the three is very well done. Great job of "master distiller".

Mouth: Presence of Alcohol undeniable, is young and strong but not at all bland, as is often the case with young whisky. All the flavors of the nose can be found in the mouth, a little ash and salt come join them. It is very powerful and amazing. At the first nose I'd have not put more than 86, but with a mouth so diverse it gains 3 points. What could give 21 years of the distillery?

Color white wine. clear Almost colorless. Bourbon casks used Quite
Intense nose, fruity bright and tight, floral. I notice a very fine balance between alcohol / flavor / roundness.
Oily, creamy palate. Coconut, mango. Good presence of alcohol but quite balanced whisky.
Final rather short, slightly astringent (vegetal) then back on exotic fruits in retro-olfaction.

Nose: Pear, new make, candy sugar, malt porridge. The alcohol is well integrated, it's powerful and the balance is almost perfect. But it is not pleasant for the nose.

Taste: Pungent (spicy), apple, lemon, pear. After cooling becomes very lemony.

Final: New make, vanilla, sugar candy. Always spicy.
After aeration, the new make flavor tend to disapear.
Final average

Whisky well done but unfortunately not to my taste. Improves dramatically with aeration.

Nose: Quite powerful and alcoholic. A bit closed at first, very interesting. Then suddenly exuberant and delicious fruity and citrus (orange, tangerine, lemon, brandy, pear brandy or quince), but surprisingly they are not persistent ... they come and go.
Against a background slightly woody vanilla notes, hay, grain porridge, and uncooked pastry.

Mouth: powerful, warm, balance a bit limited at first, but with the fruity citrus bouquet, with a slightly spicy oak biting, tingling, and slightly bitter vegetal freshness. Very long finish on the crystallized citrus and spices (ginger, white pepper?)

A priori, a young alcoholic malt quite high, very good, evolutionary, it lacks a little complexity.

N: schnapps, clean, accurate, not very complex, young, after aeration was the tea infusion salinity very grassy, beautiful notes of licorice, white fruits and dried mushrooms appear.
B: good balance, clean on green and pu her tea salinity touch alcohol strength under control, notes of white fruit
F: very short, clean round balance.

Colour: Pale yellow with greenish glints

Nose: Wow, that's weird ... it sounds young, even very young (new make?). Butter, cereal, honey, white fruit. It smells a little yeast also ... It is rather grassy, wet hay but mild peat too.

Taste: A bit of peat, smoke, rather peppery, also on wet hay. Rather powerful, It is more powerful than the nose.! I found that there was the matter.
It's pretty good! Once again it seems young ...

Final: Rather short, Petrol, white pepper, a little sour and salty too ...

The nose, fresh and invigorating, is dominated by citrus. Lemon, orange, grapefruit, everything is there. There is also a marine influence interesting leaning towards the spicy. Aeration allows notes of candied orange and almond emerge, with the background a slight whiff farmer, who can suggest a dry white wine. Water makes ferrous and shows hints of cold ashes. The nose is complex and interesting.

The palate is fresh, pungent, almost effervescent. It's strange. A little citrus emerges from all this though, but alcohol is not well integrated. This then develops mouth with notes of grain and peat smoke. Water calms it all, bringing yellow fruits.

The final is average and dry. Dominated by smoke, tar and citrus, it leaves salt appear after aeration, this salt is almost tacky without being disagreeable.

In conclusion, a honest whisky, with an interesting nose and pleasant finish, but alcohol is not integrated enough in the mouth.

Colour: white wine.
Powerful nose but without relief. Dominated by vanilla, some fruit (especially pears). Notes recalling unpleasant paper smell, cardboard. Light smoke in the background.
Powerful mouth, the power is felt. Smoke, slightly fruity. Adding water reveals more fruit.
Final rather long, rather intense on smoke.
Interesting but the nose is not up to par.

Nose: Quite light, with hints of marzipan. Peaty notes appear next, then a fairly light smoke passes.
Palate: Slightly peppery, floral too, and slightly woody. Notes of mint.
Finish: Warm, fairly short and slightly peaty.
A very nice whisky.

Color: White wine.
Nose: nose 1st poorly defined, spicy sour notes, evokes a bit of pili (pizza spice). Fresh hazelnut, peanut butter. Slightly annoying nose (alcohol?). Chemical Lime, Lemon Pulco. With time the harmonized on lemon butter.
Adding water exacerbates the sour side to the detriment of other flavors.
Mouth: quite clear, a touch of lemony acidity. Oily and silky texture. Cream of the smoke. Slightly burned the palace over time. green notes A little sour, gin.
Adding more water rounds the mouth and harmonises it greatly. Any aggression disappears.
Finish: Very smooth, a veil of smoke, medium length, leaves a pleasant impression.
Adding water to thicken the final and makes it warmer, but much less pleasant. A handful of ashes appears, almost astringent.

Comment: After starting A little disconcerted, he improves with time, but without becoming really good. An interesting profile for the analysis, but not seductive. Water is not recommended.

Colour: Straw
Nose: The first nose is a bit aggressive. After this impression we are dealing with a dry whisky, austere but expressive. Margarita cocktail, a little iodine, the mineral (chalk). Maybe some peat as well. It seemed at first close to the sample 1, but ultimately proves less austere, with in addition a faint smell of cologne evoking a gin that is pervasive in the long run. The water makes this flavor less pronounced.
Taste: Powerful, perhaps a little too without water. Fresh and lemony, a bit salty and still this feeling that somebody put gin in my whisky. A feeling of warmth in the middle palate spicy (white pepper). The texture is halfway between oily and fluid. The set is pleasantly nervous. The water makes it more drinkable, but also more oily without erasing the power and the heat of mid-palate. The second tasting confirmed this finding.
Finish: Long, mineral and subtly bitter, always with this very special scent of gin.

Conclusion: A well made whisky, but with a particular profile will not please everyone. If you like gin, go for it!

appearance: clear Riesling, thin and wide legs flowing fast
nose: mild to moderate intensity, alcohol present (limit annoying), antiseptic, plant (roots), stable (ammonia), pastery
Taste: attack is a bit discreet but taste explodes a few seconds later on strong chilli sauce, the plant side dominates besides the chilli
finish: average, especially heating
With water: 3 drops of water: alcohol is very present on the nose and mouth with 1/3 water: whiskey becomes more drinkable but looses in personality, for me the best without water
conclusion:
A whisky like the advertising that runs on German TV for Fishermens Friend: "If they are too strong, you are too weak"

Color clear white wine
Nose marked by alcohol, spicy with vague odor of cheese. A little fruit and maybe a floral side. It is quite present by the alcohol, that nose ... This makes me the same stinging sensation then after staying too long in a perfumery to smell perfume .... It takes time to open. Um, I think that I will leave it here. Too bad it is not richer, but it is at least fair and balanced. Yes, there is still a smell after letting the whisky rest a little . The one of the candy "Car-en-Sac" With water added, it becomes rather flat and not very expressive.
The attack of the mouth is spicy but not aggressive. Warm and fluid. It has a particularly good woody taste and really is very interesting. After several trials in the mouth that special taste feels really good, but impossible to put a name on it! It's infuriating! Then it moves on dry wood, nothing transcendent.
Long and warm, in the continuity of the mouth and floral (lavender? Eau de Cologne?). It remains quiet as the nose and it takes a little time to grasp. But it is very nice.

Comment: Quite difficult this review this whisky. On one side, nose lacks richness and expressiveness for me, but it is fair and balanced even if the alcohol stings a bit at times.
The mouth is somewhat the opposite. It is more expressive, more present, but a little less balanced (dry wood to the finish coming at once without even prevent, this is quite disturbing).
And the finish is quite strange ... For the first pass, I had detected hints of lavender and the second, nothing at all ... Figment of my imagination or evolution of whisky? I do not know but I ldo not chnage my notes.

NOSE: Fruity & mineral (white fruit, ripe plum). exotic touch (pineapple?).

Taste: bitter and then gently smoked and the fruits appear quietly. A little spicy. Development (too) timidly exotic.

FINAL: warm and a little hot despite a probable reduction.

Pleasant even if it lacks a third dimension!
A young one with the allure of older?

Nose: Aggressive alcohol, acidity, medicinal. After a long aeration on lemongrass and wax.
Mouth: Always on alcohol but the mouth is more pleasant, sweet, the licorice, lemon.
Finale: Short, lemony and slightly smoky.

Color: White wine
The nose is first rather fruity, pear brandy, with a slight alcoholic tingling . Apart from this dominant pear alcohol and nice freshness that is associated, one can guess distant peaty. This nose does not seem to announce a great whisky. But let's wait the mouth.
In the mouth, the same impression of(strong) pear alcohol which seems to be moderately integrated. Again a certain freshness despite this undeniable alcohol.
The finish is of medium length, always in the same fresh and fruity notes.
A good aperitif malt provided you add water to cool the ardor of alcohol.

Nose: hay, prickly in the nose, floral tones along with fruit like oranges.Also a little bit earthly and salty tones making it interresting but the shortness is the failing factor, but still... a very more-than-average starting.
Taste: Spicy, earthly tones (delicate), saltyness (delicate), flowers in the background and ending with peppers e.g. 'bite'.
Ending: firery, peppers mixed with vanilla but heavy on flavour. Lots of sensation on the tongue due to the spicyness, please don't confuse with sharp 'n edgy.

Colour : Hay

Nose : We start with some floral notes and a nice lemon acidity. I really feel like I have some fresh lemon juice in my glass !
Behind that, we find some hints of roasted almonds, dry peat but the citrus fruits win. A slight whiff of ripe exotic fruits. The alcohol stings a little. Finally, an unpleasant smell of cardboard or porridge that stayed a bit too long in milk.

Mouth : We stay on lemon and caramel. It's pretty rich, slightly stinging and very sugary (like caramel or candy-floss). In the aftertaste, some kind on non woody bitterness, kind of chemical. Hints og green apple. Overall, still cardboard and porridge.
I'm not very fond of this chemical side. With a drop of water, some ripe exotic fruits, but it's very light.

Finale : Long, slightly bitter, on lemon candy.

Conclusion : I was very enthusiastic about the lemony nose, I was not as thrilled about the mouth. Nice bits but overall, I am not seduced.

At first nosing, it’s strange and quite aggressive. This whisky seems unripe. It’s resiny, on juniper berries (gin?) and a tad alcohol. After breathing, always this vegetal side (juniper), melt with a strange fruitiness, which evokes a stale orange juice and fade flowers.
On mouth, attack is nervous and a few acid. There is citrusy, vegetal but not very clear.
The finale is medium with a slight bitterness.
Not my favorite style !

Nose: Expressive, a grappa! Fruity, tangerine, orange. Clove, grapes.
Mouth: Strong attack, orange, cloves, spicy, grapes.
I don't like it very much.
The final is unchanged,note the coherence.

Colour: Very pale. White wine? OK, but rather a Fino Sherry than a late harvest, then!
Nose: Ouch! Better to say it right now: That’s not my landscape. So grassy and grainy! Like having your nose stuck in the field when playing rugby. Autumn leaves under the rain. Sweetness of the water chestnut. Porridge and mash. Soaked grain. Clean baby burp.Slightly fruity, but even this fruitiness is difficult, austere, for “grown-ups” only. Grape marc. Juniper. Bitterness of an orange marmalade. Brrr… I shiver…
Mouth: Starts on rather sweet and mild notes of icing sugar and vanilla-flavoured gumdrops, before developing on a more citrusy range (lemon pie, tangy taste of an unripe blood peach). Then, the alcohol takes your mouth (we are over 55%). Hot it is! Balance is really on the blade. Bites like horseradish, and something coastal with a pinch of salt and a hint of cold smoke. Rooty flavours are still present, with a little liquorice now, and still that juniper. And a big rooty bitterness that takes no prisoners (gentian?).
Finish: Long, drying, sustained by this bitterness that increases over time.
Comment: Please look further than the quotation. Some whiskies are like Suze or Fino Sherry: From noble origin, pure but uneasy, they have their aficionado. As far as I’m concerned, I’m fonder on sexier ones. Just a matter of taste.

Color: White wine.
Nose: Citrus, lemon. A little yeast, pear brandy and the fruit itself. Juniper berries. Pine. The nose of a very young whisky, or even a new-make.
Taste: Dry and hot. A little pear. It confirms my impressions. This is a cask, rough around the edges. Wholesome water (see for Gaviscon after)!
Finish: Dry, malty. Many cereals. With water, it's a little nicer, sweeter. A little vanilla.

Comments: Really I did not like. I hope this is actually na immature whisky because otherwise I would even give it less points. I have not finished my drink, it's the first time.

Color: White wine
Nose: Dominated by the grain, some sweet notes, pear brandy and a vegetal touch.
Taste: Not defined, especially in the cereal and alcohol.
Acidity appear then the lemon zest.
Final medium, sugar and cereal.
Immature whisky.

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Longrow CV 2010

Colour: Very bright gold, white wine. Oily with nice tears.
Nose: In the beginning very discreet peat, there seems to be strong alcohol above the other notes. But undercover there are very fine and beautiful wooden notes. Freshly cut saw dust, well rounded with vanilla and a very pleasant metallic note (like an electric motor in the model toy railway I know from childhood). Very well balanced and promising.
Taste: Wonderful round and complex, exactly what the nose promised. Soft peat combined with brown sugar and fine wooden and floral notes. Also marzipan and vanilla. Even a pinch of sea salt? No more metallic note here, nothing disturbs this admirable impression. Impossible to add water here.
Finish: Good and long, fine and round mingling between many shades of delicate bitterness and burnt caramel.
Conclusion: This is the dram exactly to fit my taste. Absolute Killer bee (Kinky Friedman). There is no more to say. Can’t wait to see what bottle it is.
Guesswork: If there hadn’t been already the 2 Longrows in this kit I did not identify surly (sad to say), my first guess would go in direction of Campeltown. Might be a original bottling around 46%. Or might be an Islay whisky made the Campeltown way...

The nose starts on linseed oil and fresh fish. White fruits from the garden are melting with a slight sea breeze and delicate peat. This nose is fresh and elegant.
The mouth is light, mineral and brings a little bitterness on the finish (charcoal).
A delicate malt, and a very drinkable one.

Colour: pale gold
Nose with a hint of smoke (ether) but is strongly marked by white chocolate and citrus. I see immediately a certain roundness / softness.
Mouth with an attack on the roundness. Then evolves with the pungency of alcohol. The aromas of white chocolate are present in line with the nose. The mouth then develops on the fruit: pear, peach. Crisp aromas fairly well supported by alcohol and smoke hint.
The finish is attractive, primarily on fruit aromas. The smoke disappeared.

Colour: Straw
The nose is clearly marked by notes of peat, a nice smoke and underlying hints of dried fruit.
Peat dry, not too intrusive but nicely present.
The first mouth extends perfectly the nose but subsequently becomes more complex, combining these first impressions of the slightly acidic notes, fruity and oddly enough, first an obvious presence of alcohol that fades fairly quickly and eventually provide an aqueous side to the whole.
The finish is pleasantly long, subtle. It seems mostly dominated by beautiful notes of nuts. The weakness that was manifested in the mouth is completely forgotten.

Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: Phenolic and rooty. Gentian root. Slightly fizzy. Seems quite youngish. Wooops! That’s not my favourite profile… But it then gets softer with gentle notes of honey syrup and vanilla, balanced by the sharp freshness of the lemongrass and verbena. Lemon flavoured Marshmallow. Finally, the whole shows up to be quite appetizing.
Mouth: Light and flowery attack. Then, the mouth speaks louder. Quite big despite the rather low ABV (43%?), and very satisfying thanks to the return of the stimulating citrusy notes. Verbena and lemongrass are back, along with a handful of lemon drops. A nice Bourbon cask, or so it seems. Gets even more complex with the intrusion of some liquorice flavoured gumdrops. And how smooth and fluid! It literally runs down your throat!
Finish: Fades away on some cold smoke and a discreet grassy bitterness.
Comment: An elegant peatiness, nice vanilla, citrus, verbena... Was Port-Ellen really dismantled such a long time ago? Sure? Well... Let’s bet a little bill on a teenage malt from one of its neighbors, Laphroaig or Bowmore.

Straw color.
Sweet nose, a little marine, dominated by white fruits and yellow fruits. A little vanilla. Light smoke in the background. Nice balance.
attack on soft yellow fruit, and the smoke is much more apparent.
Final: sweet, rather long marked by smoke and hints of vanilla.
Very nice.

Colour: straw yellow
Nose: quite floral on spices, a mild peat, almond paste and some fresh fruit in the background.
Water enhances fruit, the apple, and take notes vegetable and nuts
Mouth: Surprising on a mixture of peat, rubber and spice.
Some sweet fruit appear and peat fades, giving way to hints of nuts and chocolate.
Long finish on peat and chocolate.

Nose: Soft, sea air, tangerines, soft peat, creamy sometimes. Nice fruitiness, something grassy too.
Mouth: Very soft, orange, grassy, soft peat and crystalized lemon. Sea air.
The final is all the same, soft, sea air, acid.

N: nice white fruit peach, apricot, not very intense, well balanced, discrete, and notes of coffee, white chocolate, rich and complex.
B: very balanced, notes of coffee, tobacco, peach great range and beautiful exotic wood, cream, very wise
F: short clean and balanced.

Color: Straw Yellow
Nose: Peat, smoke, butter, cream, ash. Also fruit like apple or pear or even a bit exotic (pineapple). Slightly metallic.
Mouth: again peat, smoke, but mixed with a fruity, citrus side this time. Rather pleasant, with hoary notes, liquorice, easy drinkable, but less charming than the nose and rather watery ...
Final: More or less long, smoky, slightly bitter, cold ashes, liquorice ...

Colour: Gold
Nose: Fresh wood, almonds, vanilla, fresh herbs, slightly salty and floral notes of a field in the spring.
Taste: Vanilla mixes with a delicate nutty flavour, mild salty taste, fresh flowers mixed with light peppery tones
Ending: Lots of vanilla from the oak, light peppery taste combines with a citrus like fruitiness, the finish is not so long.

The nose is ferrous, dominated by citrus (lime). Then it evolves into a higher register and meaty marine at a time (Tarama). It is a bit monolithic, and alcohol is not fully integrated. With aeration, powerful notes of tar smoke appeared, reminiscent of an industrial complex. It also detects the papier maché and sludge. All remaining very ferrous. It is quite austere, and not necessarily to my taste.

The mouth begins to yellow fruits and apple, which is rather strange in view of the nose. Then, dense peat if not powerful, before a late citrus and spicy. Aeration allows the turf to grow again, and lemon to show early in his mouth. It is well built, but this sense of austerity remains.

The final average is dominated by peat and tar. We also have a sparkling side was reminiscent of lemonade. Aeration highlights the salt and further develop the tar.

In conclusion, a well constructed whisky, without flaw, but a little too austere for me.

Nose: Peaty, slightly meaty, fresh sea breeze and beautiful vegetal freshness, yellow fruit and on vanilla citrus background.
Lack of complexity but frank, fresh, crisp, appetizing.

Mouth: Free, peaty, navy, very spicy (ginger) and salty, appetizing.
Rather powerful with a nice finish on citrus that makes it more rounded and balanced.

Peated whisky clearly typed / marine, very tasty and good even if its obvious youth deprives it complexity.

Nose: Peaty, sweet sherry, although the color does not augur well. The sweetness is close tp honey, indicating the presence of a bourbon cask. The alcohol is well balanced. Surely an assembly, rather a finish.
Palate: Peat, licorice and honey, a touch of dried apricot. A little more alcohol than did foreshadow the nose (46/48%). There is also the young whisky in your mouth, I think it is a blend of young and old barrels.
The finish is short on the licorice / mint. Not my whisky profile

Nose: Small acidity, lime and apricot and fishing. The end on the tea and spices.
Mouth: on liquorice (the stick), spices and lemon, a light peat.
Finale: Quite short, peat.

Nose: Predominantly peaty, fat peat, a little bit farmy and slightly spicy. A little bit of flower perfume.
Palate: True to the nose, with the same peat and a hint of pepper. Alcohol quite present.
Finish: Medium to long, predominantly peaty.
A good loyalty from nose to finish.

Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: floral and vegetal first. Slightly honeyed. Develops on pastry notes, but fails to please on long term. This nose collapses after a few minutes.
Adding water awakens this weakening nose, with more tart and more harmonious notes.
Mouth: quite oily, seems peat and smoke, but the palate is quite tight and hardly lends itself to analysis.
The water can not brighten the mouth and on the contrary, makes it even more difficult for dissection.
Finale: In the wake of the mouth, a little smoke.
Just as the mouth, the water does not wake up this final.

Comment: A profile so round and smooth, no rough edges, it's hard to get something. Nothing offensive, but no fun either. Water and improves the nose.

Colour: Pale yellow.
Nose: Lemon. Salty. The nose has quite acidic notes. Maritime with everything that goes with it. With aeration, it is more rounded. Salted butter caramel, vanilla. Bread. Mint stealth.
Palate: Oily, diluted (43%?), rather weak.
Finish: Smoke, honeyed, medium length. Trace of nuts.

Comments: Not much to say. The nose saves it a bit. Not my kind of Single Malt.

Nose: Pear too ripe, applesauce chard, dusty. Aromas of stagnant water or wet earth after rain that disappear after aeration.
Slightly lemony flavor and aroma of poplar wood.
The alcohol is well integrated and balance is very very good.
With water, it loses in complexity and takes notes of rice paper and resin.
After aeration, weak aromas of toffee, lemon and nougat.

Taste: lemon meringue. A little bit weak at the beginning of the mouth but quickly becomes powerful. Light aromas of grain and spice.

Final: Lemon, very dry, slightly spicy and tannic. Very long.

Whisky very weird who do not like water. The nose is really gaining airing but it weakened the mouth and final.

Colour: pale gold.
Nose: very expressive while remaining sensitive at first. It releases the aroma of petals blown bacon:) This is also a little oilier than the first nose (the fat of the petals feel pretty good when the package is just open).
Subsequently, it is more metallic, or even very distantly farmer. By cons, it still lacks power. I think he was reduced too much, too bad.
It remains still a bit fruity and / or odor of honey oaky and discreetly. See a bit of caramel. I do not add water for fear of extinguishing the fire already suffocating.
Mouth: very fresh, slightly sparkling. More framed the nose. but perhaps less rich. It is more limited with a gourmet taste of candy, licorice (which reminds me of the roller 2m sold during my childhood).
It becomes too mineral towards the end. It collapses quickly.
Final spicier than the nose and quite fruity. But really too short.

Colour: Straw
Nose: Very powerful. Peated, but not excessively, develops an almost medicinal freshness (menthol, Valda tablet) coated with very smooth notes (almond syrup, candy pine sap) and supported by the scent of a good Williamine. Some farmy notes (manure) complete the picture. Interesting, but the whole miss some balance.
Palate: The attack is almost watery before returning to power. By cons, in terms of aroma, more expressiveness would be welcome. It seems to be young in the mouth, with lots of brandy pear and always fresh notes already detected in the nose.
Finish: Long, cool, but somewhat spoiled by the taste of alcohol. There is peat like already deteted in the nose.

Conclusion: A potentially interesting but the whisky gave me the impression of being a little young. It literally collapsed with water, which is a shame because alcohol is still present.

Colour : Gold

Nose : We start with nice whiffs of caramelized apple, some calvados, citrus fruits (lemon and orange) and some peat. It's straight-forward, subtle even if it is not very complex. It's a bit salty to the nose (salted butter). Slight touches of roasted walnut. Well integrated alcohol.

Mouth : We continue with caramelized apples (tarte tatin), salted butter and calvados. I think it's a bit weak. Maybe a too strong dilution. Bitter orange and Marshmallow. It's a bit aqueous and somehow sugary.

Finale : Medium, on calvados.

Conclusion : A medium whisky, too aqueous but which shows nice qualities. Interesting but too diluted to my taste.

Nose: Mineral and round (yellow fruit). Bitter herb. A little spicy. A hint of smoke.

Palate: lovely oily texture, slow and too prudent evolution. We find the hint of smoke from the nose. Very bitter and herbaceous. Austere.

FINAL: short and bitter ... in line with the mouth.

Pleasant, easy access, but not to my taste and lack of complexity in my opinion.

appearance: pale yellow, thin legs that flow rather quickly
nose: low intensity, well integrated alcohol after a few minutes of breathing, white fruits, vanilla, peat in the background, sour like curd milk (disappears at breathing)
Taste: low intensity, moderate bitter and sour mixture
finish: short
With water: no change on the nose, the mouth is less intense but the bitterness has become less and the fruits are more present
conclusion:
The nose is discreet and not very complex. However it is pleasant, this in contrast to the mouth that is definitely not to my taste.

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Longrow, 100 proof

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Johannes Sauer

C.: Bight, clear, golden, strawN.: In the beginning a sharp whiff of Terpentine, but very soon mellow and softer notes add a very soft touch giving the whole picture a beautiful balance. There are bitter chocolate, caramel but also very interesting spicy and floral notes: Freshly mowed grass, cinnamon, vanilla cookie, soft wooden smoke. Very smooth peat lingering in the backT.: Full, overwhelming, but not at all hurting. You don't need any water to sense a symphony of different aromes: Citrus peel, Grapefruit but also the dark chocolate mentioned above. Salt and mild green pepper. A drop of water reveals more smoke, peat and on the other hand, brown sugar. Much less fruits.F.: Very very long. The fruits disappear slowly, smoke and peat keep on dancing twosteps on the palate.

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10 years, Raw cask

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Old Malt Cask, 10 years

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Old Malt Cask, 1993-2008. Cask#4704

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9 years, Marsala wood finish

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Johannes Sauer

Colour: Red golden, rosé wine
Nose: Very appealing, the alcohol kicks in very softly, at first a bit heavy on the whiney and definetly a little weak on the malty side, but that’s no loss at all. Later there’s fruit brandy (kirsch, slobovitz, williams christ, you name it), but now, yes, whalenuts marcipane and lots of spices (aniseed, cumin, a little menthol, even red peppers). waldmeister and freshly cut clover. dextrose, very soft hints of peatsmoke. Very very promising and multilayered.
Taste: W/o water very firm and heavy but again very seducing and charming, the peat now being far more marked and mixing beautifully with the fruit notes (woodberries). Soft soapy notes (green apple), but very likeable, comparable to a good armagnac... with water there are always new shades: Again nuts, marcipane and dried fruits, also soft notes of an old leather bag, i could go on like this more and more.
Finish: Now the spices, mentioned above, changing and lingering between themselves and the appealing fruity approach. After a medium long development there’s a prickly peppery pleasure remaining on the tongue.
Conc.: This bottle was bought in Scotland during my last Holidays 2007 (the picture was taken there near Loch Linne) and was a very dear souvenir during the last two years. But alas, every bottle has a last drop.
Price in UK 2007: Sterling 42,00
Tasted on June, 4, 2008

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Longrow 7 years, Gaja Barolo

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Henrik Johansson

Date of tasting: 8/2 2009
Apperance: Yellow- almost old Gold
Nose: Warm and smoky. Didn't feel very spirity at first but then an agressive prickle attacked the nose. Behind that there's some cough medicine, sawdust and green twigs. A pretty dominant peatiness, tar and moss. Intensive, youthful freshness with some complexity (but could do with more). With more water added- cumin and mossy woodlands comes out together with a wineyness which is beginning to appear.
Body: Medium, oily.
Palate: Round and cooling. Definately towards the sweet side. The wine comes out with a dominant acidity in the middle. Reminds me of a fresh white wine. The finish is relatively long and hovers between ripe pears and dry smoke.

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Longrow 14 years

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Society 180th anniversary

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Henrik Johansson

This bottling was drawn from two casks, one refill sherry butt filled in 1997 (#18) and one refill sherry hogshead filled in 1993 (#28), it was bottled in 2008 as one of 850 bottles.
Apperance: Yellow Gold
Nose: Pleasant and sherried aromas without the heftyness one would find in a first fill. Quite rubbery, a little medicinal and some seaweed. Strokes of the ocean in this one and some oil associated notes. The diluted dram lends lots of nice woody touches, some caramell, salted pork and the soothing lavender, which is almost like violet here. Some peardrops and apricots in there as well but the fragrant aroma is the star of the show.
Body: Light to medium
Palate: Nicely balanced sherry notes. Very warming, on the sweet side combining some fruity, wood! y, fragrant and winey notes. The finish is a little bitter but nice and long and really ties of this dram in a very nice way.

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12 o 100 proof (imported by Samaroli, early 80's)

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21 yo Parchment label, "Archibald Mitchell", 80's

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15 yo Round Bottle, Yellow Thistle, Black & White label, early 90's

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12 yo Round Bottle, Yellow Thistle, Black & White label

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Vintage 2001 Batch nr 1

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18 years, Batch 1

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Rundlets & Kilderkins

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10 years 100 proof (2009)