A huge thank you to Tanya and Ken for hosting the whisky miscreants of Jacksonville and providing two forms of pork (the other white meat)!! Aly and I were exhausted from our day in Orlando and were able to stay awake and enjoy some tasty beverages with our friends.
Ken, always hard at work brewing something, let us taste an apple cider aged in Palm Ridge Reserve barrels. It was an very nice cider. Keep in mind that I do not like ciders. This one tasted apple (cut and left out for a few hours) with citrus and oak. The flavor of the Palm Ridge came through in the nose and aftertaste. The cider itself was not overly sweet with a good flavor of apple. Since we were tasting it before bottling, it was not carbonated. I made the parallel to mojitos. Both taste so good that you can easily gulp them down. The danger is real with those kind of beverages. Good stuff!
Ken, always hard at work brewing something, let us taste an apple cider aged in Palm Ridge Reserve barrels. It was an very nice cider. Keep in mind that I do not like ciders. This one tasted apple (cut and left out for a few hours) with citrus and oak. The flavor of the Palm Ridge came through in the nose and aftertaste. The cider itself was not overly sweet with a good flavor of apple. Since we were tasting it before bottling, it was not carbonated. I made the parallel to mojitos. Both taste so good that you can easily gulp them down. The danger is real with those kind of beverages. Good stuff!
*Bunnahababhain Ceobanach 46.3% ABV
-smells band-aid, grassy
-tasted medicinal, slight oak
-with water smelled grassy like dandelion
-tasted toasted bread, peppery oak
-trailed bitter oak
This whisky retained its characteristic oily, rich flavor with a lighter element.
-smells band-aid, grassy
-tasted medicinal, slight oak
-with water smelled grassy like dandelion
-tasted toasted bread, peppery oak
-trailed bitter oak
This whisky retained its characteristic oily, rich flavor with a lighter element.
*Tamnavulin-Glenlivet 46% ABV
-smelled slightly moldy fungus wood with cinnamon
-sweet oak and slightly floral as well
-with water smelled cinnamon bun
-tasted oak. leathery
-trailed very quickly with a hint of floral
This was a bottle from Byron that Todd brought out. Since it was bottled in the early eighties, it's a sure bet that paxarette was in the barrels for the aging. That explains the sweet aromas. Also at the time a number of distillers added Glenlivet to the name of the expression thinking it would help with sales. This was actually a Cadenhead whisky (Springbank).
-smelled slightly moldy fungus wood with cinnamon
-sweet oak and slightly floral as well
-with water smelled cinnamon bun
-tasted oak. leathery
-trailed very quickly with a hint of floral
This was a bottle from Byron that Todd brought out. Since it was bottled in the early eighties, it's a sure bet that paxarette was in the barrels for the aging. That explains the sweet aromas. Also at the time a number of distillers added Glenlivet to the name of the expression thinking it would help with sales. This was actually a Cadenhead whisky (Springbank).
*Glenlivet Nadurra 16 yr 56.2% ABV
- smelled sweet cinnamon dessert
-tasted strong pepper vanilla oak
-with water smelled sweet floral
-tasted slight oak
-trailed quickly oak
I guess I expected more from a 16 year old whisky. There was not much here to make me choose it over a Glenlivet 12 yr.
- smelled sweet cinnamon dessert
-tasted strong pepper vanilla oak
-with water smelled sweet floral
-tasted slight oak
-trailed quickly oak
I guess I expected more from a 16 year old whisky. There was not much here to make me choose it over a Glenlivet 12 yr.
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