Whiskey Tasting Notes, part 2 (Scotch)
Jul. 12th, 2020 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroMy parents have generously taken ARR for another week of “summer camp”, so Jethrien and I decided to try out the second of the tasting flights she got me for my birthday. This was the “Regions of Scotland” flight.
• Glenfarolas 15 Year Old – This was the closest to the scotches I’m used to, and I’d be interested in drinking it again. It has an amazing nose, and a very “creamy” taste with a long, lingering burn.
• Lagavulin 16 Year Old – That’s a big glass of peat smoke, that it. Smells like a peat fire, tastes like a peat fire, lingers smokey. Jethrien liked it; I thought it was too much peat.
• Talisker 10 Year Old – Not really that fragrant; the taste is a reasonably amount of smoke without a lot of peat but some pepperiness. Not terribly memorable, really.
• Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old – This has a fruity nose and a dark honey flavor. The finish is very spicy, perhaps a little too much. Interesting, and different from most scotches I’ve encountered.
• Glenkinchie 12 Year Old – This was described as “stewed fruits and fresh grain” and that was both accurate and unusual. It was another flavor profile I wasn’t expecting (and “grain” not like beer, but like the smell of a wheat field), with a gentle and subtle finish.
Overall: I feel like this exposed me to things that people can do with scotch that I was unaware of. Most of my previous awareness of scotch was limited to the “creamy caramel” scotch and the “OMG peat” scotch. Really, now I just want to keep trying more.
• Glenfarolas 15 Year Old – This was the closest to the scotches I’m used to, and I’d be interested in drinking it again. It has an amazing nose, and a very “creamy” taste with a long, lingering burn.
• Lagavulin 16 Year Old – That’s a big glass of peat smoke, that it. Smells like a peat fire, tastes like a peat fire, lingers smokey. Jethrien liked it; I thought it was too much peat.
• Talisker 10 Year Old – Not really that fragrant; the taste is a reasonably amount of smoke without a lot of peat but some pepperiness. Not terribly memorable, really.
• Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old – This has a fruity nose and a dark honey flavor. The finish is very spicy, perhaps a little too much. Interesting, and different from most scotches I’ve encountered.
• Glenkinchie 12 Year Old – This was described as “stewed fruits and fresh grain” and that was both accurate and unusual. It was another flavor profile I wasn’t expecting (and “grain” not like beer, but like the smell of a wheat field), with a gentle and subtle finish.
Overall: I feel like this exposed me to things that people can do with scotch that I was unaware of. Most of my previous awareness of scotch was limited to the “creamy caramel” scotch and the “OMG peat” scotch. Really, now I just want to keep trying more.
