The Tomintoul 27
Tasting notes: Oily and woody like a pine-needle littered, cedar shake-shingle roof, home to a dead ferret, baking in noon-day summer sun. A little [...]
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The Bowmore Darkest 15
Tasting notes: It’s always dangerous to read marketing materials before assaying the tasting of an expression, and in this case, my trepidation was [...]
The Oban 14
Tasting notes: Bottles are reflective, liquid is reflective, and people, under ideal conditions, are also reflective. People who are holding bottles and drinking liquid [...]
The The Macallan 12*
Tasting notes: The mixing of peat and sherry in this expression is like a granite gothic gargoyle bathed in misty moonlight looming over a shadowed formal garden. [...]
The Glen Ellen “Merlin”*
Tasting notes: The first thing that strikes this taster is that the “magical” bottle is larger than the usual airplane nip, so it is approached with some [...]
The Glenrothes 1991-2007
Tasting notes: Full, rich nose, akin to dunking my head in a mossy oaken bucket of honey harvested from the waxen hives of killer bees that migrated across the Mediterranean [...]
A Bowmore Ménage à Deux
The Bowmore Legend Tasting notes: “Legend” typically evokes a remarkable tale filled with characters and deeds that resonate through the ages. This seems an [...]
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