A short while ago I decided to start linking reviews to the examples given in my scale, and the lower end ones ended up not having links since they weren’t reviewed and I don’t like them enough to bother, generally speaking, but I didn’t like the aesthetics of only some lines with blue text. I do feel this does deserve a proper fair shake, however, despite not being made to appeal to the kind of people who like whisky.
Minutia: Neat in a glencairn.
Color: Burnished, 1.1.
Nose: Tropical fruit, butter cookie. It’s clouded by cardboard. Reminds a bit of Waterford’s youth, actually.
Taste: Thin. Cookie/dough.
Finish: Caramel. Short.
While it’s entirely uninspiring as a neat pour, it’s actually not quite as terrible as people like to talk about it. There wasn’t nothing truly aversive or unpleasant, just a bit beneath neutral. Probably bad memories of drinking it before developing a taste for whisky clouds the perception of it. Still, it’s best left for mixing as intended.
Score: 60
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