Live Tasting - October 2012 - Orange and Black

[Ganga]

Being the month with Halloween, why don't we go with a color theme: orange/black. Choose your whiskies based on having one or the other color on the label.

[mikeymad]

Oh I thought it was in support of the SF Giants post season...

[Willie JJ]

Is that the season when the SF Giants are volunteer postmen?

[AdamMY]

Being the month with Halloween, why don't we go with a color theme: orange/black. Choose your whiskies based on having one or the other color on the label.

If the font is black, is it fair game?

[Ganga]

Being the month with Halloween, why don't we go with a color theme: orange/black. Choose your whiskies based on having one or the other color on the label.

If the font is black, is it fair game?

you tell me.....

[AdamMY]

The Highland background is Orange. And the font color is black.

Color: Medium gold

Nose: Lots of black pepper, cream, and coconut. A hint of vanilla, and a touch of sugary sweetness.

Taste: Cream, black pepper, coconut, and some other tropical fruits I can't seem to identify right now.

Finish: Maple flavored icecream, with a touch of baileys on top.

[AdamMY]

96-13 SV Glen Elgin Cask 2338


I consider that shiny band orange enough for this.

Glen Elgin, been awhile since I dug this one out of the back of the cabinet.

Color: Medium Yellow.

Nose: This is the Virgin oak cask, and I forgot how different it was than even the bourbon cask scotches. Nose is has a lot more wood, perhaps a touch of burnt toast, goot bit of sweetness. I sometimes even get wafts of stuff that remind me of bourbon, though no where near as strong or spicy.

Taste: Lots of oak and vanilla, but also good bit of coconut, and candy apples.

Finish: I always enjoy the finish on this one, candy apple, and spiced apple cider but rather sweet.

[AdamMY]

Not a trace of orange, but the entire bottle/lable is black. you guessed it. Its the Laddie Infinity V3.

Color: Acorn brown.

Nose: The wine is the most apparent it has ever been, with hints of tawny port and olorosso sherry. Besides that a lot of warm spices and herbs, with a touch of brothyness to it. Still getting that odd sense of Salted and Smoked Fish.

Taste: Sweet spiced syrups, but again the wine is quite strong with this one. Sense of grapes, but a heck of a lot of spices, and brown sugar. Really having an odd time describing the most predominant taste, I honestly think it is a mix of the grapes, spices, and sugar, combining to give a dessert impression that relies heavily on rasins.

Finish: Initially it is a plethora of raisins and prunes, and other dried fruits, fading away slowly overy the course of 4-5 minutes.

[Ganga]

Tamdhu 10 with the black label

This has some orange peel, young oakiness, malty.

The is sweet but not overly so and the oak is a nice offset. A good everyday dram.

[Ganga]

Trader Joe's Irish Single Malt (black cap and lettering.... )

lots of tropical fruits, malty....Irish equivalent to Glenlivet 12

[Ganga]

ADR Bow 20 (it comes in a black tube)
cask 2061
56.2

classic bow notes of heather and lavendar, wood smoke. More charcoal on the palate with a little bit of diesel too. Sherry notes come washing in over the top. Think Cherrie Jubilee

Good Bowmore at a reasonable price.

[Ganga]

Springbank 12 54.6 (black label)

carmel, cherries, light peat smoke-waxy peat on the palate, oranges.

This is absolutely stunning whisky.

[Ganga]

Loch Dhu 10 (The BLACK Whisky)

smells like burnt carmel. tastes like it too. Think e150 to the max. Imagine when I tell you this is an improvement. The stuff was an ashtray when opened. Everyone....

[Ganga]

Black & White blended scotch whisky (enough said)

very light everything...except the grain alcohol comes through strong. Light peat, malt, spices.

Pedestrian.

[Ganga]

Old Crow Reserve (black label again)

Sweet carmel corn, rye, little charcoal. This is actually a very good blend of these elements. None dominate.

[Ganga]

In true Halloween spirit (pun intended), Devotion Vodka. Not whisky and has black and orange writing plus and orange cap.

Vodka infused with blood oranges

If I have to have vodka.

[Ganga]

Old Crow Bourbon (white label with BIG black lettering)

corn sweetness, little bit of anthracite and vanilla

this is lesser compared to the reserve but still decent.

[Ganga]

HP 12, roundy shoulders with the nearly complete black label

heather, leather, and maybe some oversherriedness. Peat becomes evident on the palate. I really prefer the more sweet current bottles or the overly rich bottles from the 1990s.

[Ganga]

Arran 1996, 4 yo, ARN 96/039 BLACKadder...

very young but show promise.

[Ganga]

Arran 1996, 5 yo, BLACKadder, 56.7%

very similar to the previous but stronger.