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Colour: Sweet white wine, bright gold
Nose: Very busy and refreshing, there's wooden smoke combined with a surprising sweet deepness and also a clear chemical note (terpentine or photo developer, leather polish). Later there is dried tropical fruits. Very interesting but in my book not round and balanced.
Taste: The first impression is smoke again, fresh polished leather, the fruits are too weak for my taste, but the chemical element is mellowed by deep and sweet cane sugar and so it's not at all disturbing and very pleasant.
Finish: Medium short but very lingering, with some different shades showing up: Some more different fruits, wooden roots, moss and bitter herbs, lemon peel, the chemicals decreasing little.
Conc.: A very interesting dram, showing what two more ! years in a rum cask can add to a whisky. But it cannot add what I call complexity.
Date: Nov. 19. 2008
Price in Germany: 40 Euro

2008