For Christmas someone was kind enough to give me a bottle of the water of life. I can't recall having this before so I tasted it, well, wrote down what I tasted.
*Glen Moray 12 year Elgin Classic 40%ABV -smells slight caramel and earthy -almost a grassy smell -tastes chalky/earthy with a rubbery undertone -trails sour rubber -with water - smells slight wood -tastes rubbery wood -Better without water. It is a light, Speyside
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Our annual December meeting at Myra's (well, second year in a row) was an evening of splendid food and drink with a western theme. Fortunately nobody was speaking Gaelic for it was a western American theme. Drew out-Drew us, of course, with items straight out of his closet. "I'm your Huckleberry. And that's just my game......"
The whisky tastings for the evening: *Auchentoshan Classic No Age Statement 40% ABV -smelled very sweet-dessert/bubble gum -tastes almost chalky with slight wood -with water - loses sweet smell -tastes thick and doughy -trails wood -As expected, a very light whisky *Auchentoshan Triple Wood (Bourbon/Oloroso/Pedro Gimenez) -smells strongly of vanilla like a dessert -tastes like under-sweetened pastry -trails wood, almost chalky -with water - tastes of oak w/tinge of sweet -trails quickly -This is a club favorite. Aly and Donna mark this at one end of their scale, the good end! *Willett Straight Rye Whiskey 55% ABV -smells strongly of alcohol! Slightly oaky -has a strong alcohol head w/rye taste -alcohol burns for a long time -with water - less alcohol and slight wood taste -overpowering rye flavor -I don't mind the taste of rye whiskey, although this one is pretty strong. *Yamizaki 12 year 43% ABV -almost all burn with little taste (Kanpai!!) -very slight wood - had to try to taste something -with water - sweet at first -turns sour wood and trails quickly *Oban 18 year Limited Edition 43% ABV -smells slightly sweet almost like a bagel (didn't think I was still hungry at this point in the evening) -warm like bread at first and trails oak -with water - smells earthy like grass -tastes sweet pine wood -trails slightly wood quickly We also poured more whisky into our own Barrel #210 that night. There is plenty to slosh around with the addition of: Amrut (everybody's favorite), a Buchanan's 12 year and the remainder of the Yamizaki 12 year. A few days later I poured the bottle of The Glenlivet 12 year in as well. Aly used some of it for cooking for that ef | AuthorJM is a long standing member of the Iron Mountain Whiskey Club. ArchivesSeptember 2014 Categories |
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