This interested me enough to get a sample a couple years ago, and here we are with it turning up in the final calendar from my 30ml sample collection.
Minutia: Matured in ex-bourbon casks and finished in ex-rum casks. Reviewed blind, neat in an opaque glencairn.
Color: Amontillado Sherry; 0.9.
Nose: Malty. Some hay, apple skins. It feels like there is some smoke in here, but it’s not present enough for me to be sure.
Taste: Sweet malt. Or more like a sweetness that switches between malty, fruity, and honey notes.
Finish: Ash. Malt. Shorter.
Guess: I was thinking Laddie, but the vague smoke in the nose suggested peat making me think it could be the Fire & Cane sample I know is in the pool, The ash in the finish cemented my guess as the Fire & Cane.
Feels really good to be so precise with a guess, I gotta say. Anyway. This whisky doesn’t have a ton going on in terms of complexity. The taste is mostly just sweet, the finish doesn’t really linger, and the nose doesn’t have a ton going on. That said, the fact that the sweet taste is in flux for the duration it’s in the mouth is a nice plus. It is light and simple, which is not bad, but I tend to prefer more robust flavors.
Score: 77
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