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Well first off it seemed more lively and complex on the nose, opening with a gentle medicinal pure peat, smoke, coffee, hickory and a charred wood note. It now seems to have a greater degree of elegance as opposed to vague-ness! There is a lovely sweetness of ... [more details]
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A robust, butch and possibly more rounded nose than the first release. It’s also less fruity and I think its youthfulness has been tamed by a greater degree of oak influence. However there is still plenty of iodine, salt, parma violets, creosote, burnt toffee ... [more details]
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Quite a rich, spicy nose. A superb marriage of bourbon and sherry oak. Clean quite youthful aromas of sherry fruit, gentle almost restrained medicinal peat, Seville orange marmalade, bonfires on the beach, seaweed, soil, cocoa and parma violets. Initially the ... [more details]
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First Fill Bourbon
Tasted: Feb 2011
The colour is a lot darker than batch 1. The palate is crisp, fresh and mentholated but with plenty of robust oak vanillins, more so than batch 1. It is also oilier and peatier than batch 1 with a greater degree of phenoli... [more details]
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Very oily coastal orange fruit to begin with, followed by barley, light peat smoke, honey, fish, brine and hints of spices and menthol. The sherry sits pleasantly in the background and supports. One wonders where the intense peat smoke of old has gone?
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Tasted: Nov 2009
A toffee/ caramel overload! You really have to sniff quite hard to get past all of that but there is some leafy herbal notes along with some gentle, dry and dusty peat smoke and some light briny fruit. The palate is full and toffee rich, an... [more details]
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Bourbon
Another new ‘multi-vintage’ bottling. This time the peating levels have been increased to around 35ppm which shows on the nose with a phenolic intensity of medicinal peat and rubbery fisherman’s garments. A classic peated Islay. Yet it is definitel... [more details]
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This beautifully presented gift set created by the Whisky Tasting Company includes a 3cl bottle of the First Edition of Octomore, the Port Charlotte PC6 and the Port Charlotte PC8.
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This beautifully presented gift set created by the Whisky Tasting Company includes a 3cl bottle of the Waves, the 12 year old 2nd Edition and the 1984 Redder Still or the Golder Still.
Also included is a tasting card for each whisky along with a tasting mat [more details]
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Bourbon/ Sherry
Tasted: Dec 2011
The nose is bursting with juicy fruit, sweet barley and some beautiful, shimmering coastal notes and a soupcon of peat. Very full and malty with some balanced, clean, sherry notes. Much fuller than the old 10 year old and les... [more details]
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Bourbon
Quiet delicate aromas. Although the peating level is relatively light the aromas are quiet dominant. Behind lurks some youthful coastal fruit, oil, bog myrtle and fisherman’s sowesters. It actually reminds me of Caol Ila with that fresh, garden lik... [more details]
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A big, sweet, honeyed nose, which reminds me of the Springbank rum wood. Quiet earthy with a touch of fishy-coastalness. A hint of peat attempts to break through the complexity of honey aromas – acacia, lehua and orange blossom and gentle crumbly spices. The p... [more details]
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Bourbon cask 3802 – sample at 56.1%
Dist: 1992 Btl: Feb 2012
Tasted: Feb 2012
A sumptuously mature nose. Classic, old skool laddie! Maritime laced apricot, apple, greengauge, honeysuckle, salty-honey and a distant peat note.
The palate is quite earthy w... [more details]
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Sherry
Dist: 1985 Btl: 2011
Tasted: Nov 2011
The nose opens with the rich, slightly woody, nutty, mature sherry. Given its age the sherry aromas have a beautiful delicacy to it, giving way to a huge citrus coastal hit along with citrus, the sherry hangs on ... [more details]
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A multi vintage bottling of a selection of Refill Sherry and Tempranillo casks.
Peated to 20ppm
The nose opens with leafy sherry and a deep, herbal fishiness along with a touch of peat. I guess as this is a controlled vatting rather than a finish that the... [more details]
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Sauternes Matrured
Tasted: Mar 2012
A wonderfully intense nose of briny cereal, oat cakes, ozone and those unmistakable Laddie aromas of apricot, white fruits and apple float above a dense core of rich Sauternes honey. The peat has a rich, full character ope... [more details]
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Distilled at Bruichladdich
Tasted: Mar 2011
31 botanicals are used in the production of The Botanist, including 22 native to Islay. The full list of botanicals is as follows: angelica root, apple mint, birch leaves, bog myrtle leaves, cassia bark, chamomile,... [more details]
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The colour is a lot darker than the old 12 year old, and would indicate that more sherry butts have been used this time. The first sniff confirms that hypothesis – Slabs of malt and slightly sulphurous sherry wood, followed by damp earth and hints of high tone... [more details]
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Bourbon cask 13174
Dist: 1977 Btl: Feb 2012
Tasted: Feb 2012
A seriously tropical (kiwi, greengage, banana, orange) and gristy nose with an abundance of sweet, luscious honey and beautifully fragranced oak. There’s so much tropical fruit that one would be f... [more details]
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An intensely youthful nose full of all things fishy and crumbly bog myrtle-peat. A wave of coastal-fresh astringency powers from the glass as does hints of burnt wood, camphor and seaweed. Beneath all this stinkiness is some lush sherried honey and citrus frui... [more details]
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Tasted: Dec 2011
A soft supple sherried nose. Almost spotless (apart from a very minor sulphur blemish). Expansive and generously endowed with roasted nuts, orange oil, walnut, prunes, coffee, muscavado sugar, soft spices along with a touch of violet. Wonderf... [more details]
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Bourbon
Code: DIR0008
Dist: Dec 1991 Btl: Feb 2012
Tasted: Feb 2012
A stunningly fresh nose, redolent of salt encrusted tropical fruit – apricot and pineapple with a beautiful salty-citrus twang! Very, very clean with hints of barley and light oak, and eve... [more details]
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Bourbon
Code: OMC2052
Dist: Aug 1997 Btl Sept 2011
Tasted: Sept 2011
The nose is pleasantly tropical, almost Aran-esque in character with hints of mulch, wet leaves, peat and a touch of burnt wood and a building coastal intensity. All too often bourbon cas... [more details]
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Btl: 2009
Tasted: Jan 2012
A very fresh and briny nose. The lack of peat allows hints of citrus, lime and white fruit to show. Seriously coastal with plenty of barley along with a touch of tarry rope and hessian. It has a slight ‘triple distilled’ marc like ... [more details]
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