These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 7th #BlindDrams evening.
Appearance: mid gold in colour, swirls cling as a thin line, bead up slowly and fall as slow thick legs.
Nose: orchard fruit to start, some pine needles and barley sugars. Grassy herbal notes and a good prickle from perhaps a high ABV?
Palate: Thick sweet syrupy arrival, orchard fruit turning a little tropical - pineapple, mango, banana and a big bite of ginger spice, continues with a icing sugar sweetness then a sour citrus grapefruit fizz left on the tongue as the liquid disappear. Nice!
Finish: sour citrus and lingering tropical fruit.
Nice this one - good start! I'd have a bottle - thinking a 50% ABV Speysider?
Appearance: another mid gold whisk, swirls cling as a thin line, beat up slowly and fall as slow thick legs.
Nose: high ABV is apparent again, empty smoky bacon crisps bag, cola cubes and dried pineapple.
Palate: thick syrupy arrival, maybe not as sweet as dram1, a little more spice too. The ABV is up there as well. Liquorice, orchard fruit, brown sugar, dark chocolate and again a sour citrus note....another Arran?
Finish: long lingering orchard fruit, huge ginger spice and a little sour citrus. Maybe a hint of strawberry jam - refill sherry cask? Not one I'd buy - sorry....
Appearance: dark gold in the glass, swirls cling as a hairline crack, take a while to bead up and eventually fall as slow thin legs.
Nose: toffee, strawberry jam, strawberry toffos? Musty 2nd hand bookshop, some dried fruit and a cheap sherry.
Palate: thick chewy arrival - huge ABV, sour citrus, figs, black cherries, dates and some toffee. Smoke hints are offered too. A little water adds a burnt coffee note and some drying ginger spice. The ABV on this one must be north of 60%
Finish: lingering chilli spice, a little smoke and burnt coffee. Not one I'd buy - not really in to Sherry Bombs
Appearance: Bronze colour hinting at sherry bomb, swirls cling as a hairline crack, eventually forming beads and falling as slow thick legs.
Nose: surprisingly not as much of a
sherry bomb as Dram3, dunnage notes are here and strawberry jam but there is more sweetness - brown sugar and a nutty note. Dark fruit - dates, black cherries, figs all stored in a thick oak box.
Palate: an more elegant sherry bomb, older? Huge dried fruit and black fruit - blackberries, figs, dates, black cherries, very drying. Hints of dark chocolate and a little smoke. This seems a little older and more refined than Dram4. Orange zest is a good shout but I'm getting a sour note as the liquid disappears - grapefruit?
Finish - long spicy ginger notes with berry fruit and smoke notes. Nice - much better than 3
Appearance: mid gold in the glass, swirls cling as a thin line, bead up slowly and fall as slow thin legs.
Nose: Maritime medicinal peat smoke - we're on Islay but.... the colour is a little dark - a sherry or wine cask maybe but I'm not getting any of that on the nose - it's all just smoke - Germoline and plasters!
Palate: ooooooh that's good - that's the winner! smooth sweet and sour arrival, a little honey, a little grapefruit. BBQ pineapple with a syrup drizzle, Baked apple cored with dried fruit and honey. YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!
Finish: sweet tropical fruit and smoke. Y U M M Y
The drams were:
Dram 1 was Arran's The Bothy QC at 56.2% - £41
Dram 2 was a Lady of the Glen bottling of a 12yo Dailuaine PX - £82
Dram 3 was a 2007 Deanston 13yo Single Cask #900147 ay 65%
Dram 4 was a 2006 GlenAllachie 14yo Single Cask #671 Trilogy Part II at 61%
Dram 5 was Port Charlotte's 2010 OLC:01 at 55.1%
The theme was #NoShortMeasures with Gordon and Scott making sure we had high ABV full measures!
More information about the Blind Tasting Consortium and the over all scores can be found here!
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