The Octomore 13.2
Tasting notes:This opens up with notes of burned bacon and taffeta from a post-prom bonfire brunch that went, in the memorable patois of Chad, “oogie.” We also find [...]
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The Limavady Single Barrel Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Tasting notes:On the nose, we find freshly cut lemon wedges smeared with pomegranate butter. But that’s not all. We find grapefruit-encrusted daisy petals, and cinnamon [...]
The Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition 2020 Release
[Editor’s note: Today is the Malt Impostor’s 13th Maltiversary! And on this maltiversary, like our first, we celebrate it by having John review a Lagavulin [...]
The Aerolite Lyndsay 10 Year Old
Tasting notes:Ah, there it is. That delicious Islay nose. Scrumptious. And then the memories flood in. But in this case, instead of a crumbled [...]
The Simply Whisky “Dream Big” (4 Year Old Balcones Straight Corn Whiskey)
Tasting notes:From the start, this 65.7% abv whiskey noses like something that a corner man keeps in his bag when the fight reaches the late rounds. Which is to say, [...]
The Port Askaig 28 Year Old (45.8%)
Tasting notes:Right away, on the nose, I think, this is a dram for journeys. And just like that I’m on a reed raft drifting down the Amazon. The smell of the wet reeds [...]
The Waterford Dunmore 1.1 Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Tasting notes:The beautiful cobalt bottle lets out a spangled stream of whiskey that I can smell right as it hits the glass. Notes of lilacs rolled up into a hay bale [...]
The Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength (Batch 20)
Tasting notes:After nearly twelve years, we Impostors have learned a few things. This despite our best efforts to remain gustatory tabulae rasae. We have learned, [...]
The Singleton of Dufftown 17 Year Old 2020 Special Release
Tasting notes:In the interest of full disclosure, whenever I see a Dufftown expression I imagine that it comes from the fictional Springfield, not the mythical [...]
The Pittyvaich 30 Year Old 2020 Special Release
Tasting notes:My initial inspection of this spun-gold liquid is like that of a single kaleidoscope image. I get at first a preposterous array of sensations that I [...]
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