ABV: 43 %
Origin: Islands
Type: Single malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and sour. At first there’s a mild lemony sweetness with honey and vanilla at the base. There’s also a fresh fruitiness, mainly pears, sitting in the center with a sprinkle of cinnamon within. The whole is very dessert-like. It’s also very top heavy and the background comes through as quite spirity. A very vanilla rich oakiness forms around the edges of the glass and brings some coconuts with it. This is a nice nose. It lacks a bit of balance between the components and there’s no apparent complexity.

Mouth: It starts out with a sweet and sour mix with the coconut surrounding the palate. It’s more lemony in taste than on the nose. Honey, vanilla and a smidge of toffee makes out the bulk of the flavour. The sour note travels backwards with time. It still feels very spirity and harsh though. It lacks refinement and comes through as a bit unpleasant in the mouth. The flavours that exist are very dessert-like and nice. There’s a dusty note floating around as well.

Finish: The transition doubles down on the ethanol notes and the start isn’t all that pleasant. It soon reverts to the dessert-like character with the lemony sweetness, pears and coconut. It dies down just as quickly though. The oakiness is very shy and it doesn’t come through until the late finish. It’s a grey old oakiness with a bit of dust and a miniscule nuttiness. This is a good whisky which really doesn’t do the distillery any justice. It’s simple and slightly harsh but still puts on a nice array of simple flavours.

Additional information
This whisky was distilled in 1998 and bottled in 2007 which makes it ~ 9 YO. It’s aged in refill ex-sherry hogsheads.

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