A bit of a bonus “review” to cap off the Skotchtoberfest lineup. Since I had a sample of every cask used in Raasay’s recipe, rather than finish the glass I decanted them into a vessel large enough to hold it. Here’s a quick little review of that for now after a couple days all mingling in there. I have a 1L barrel, but it exploded when someone knocked it off a table and I’m not a copper so it’s back together but decorative as I don’t think it will hold any liquid at this point. I’d already aged some Connemara twice in it after seasoning with cider (excellent after its aging, btw) and with red wine, so it probably didn’t have much left in it anyway. I have ordered another, and it’s been swelling for a couple days now for me to make my own preview into longer-aged Raasay malt. Still undecided how/if I might want to put something into it, so if anyone has ideas, please chime in. Hope you enjoy.
Raasay 2, 2022 Vintage, u/thebonewolf, Island (Mull)/New Jersey Single Malt, 63.5% ABV
Minutia: Distilled on Raasay and matured in various casks for 2 years and combined and bottled by me on October 1, 2022 yielding less than 1 bottle. Enjoyed neat in a glencairn.
Nose: Smoke, wine, wood, spice. A bit of a mess and obviously a new frankenblend but nothing off-putting
Taste: Smoke and pepper. Malty, but weirdly so.
Finish: Nice smoke, but it turns into spice. The smoke comes back with leather and keeps the pepper. Medium-short.
So just dumping the samples together doesn’t do much for them, but the finish was something I could live with in a proper whisky. Hopefully some marrying and aging time in my tiny barrel will get this together.
Score: 74
Musical Evocation: Alice Cooper – “Feed My Frankenstein”
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