Whisky Magazine Issue 19
Jimmy Russell - Japanese Whisky - Illicit Distilling - Bourbon Tasting.
Published November 2001.
82
- Nose
- Fresh oak or even cedar. Box of chocolates.
- Palate
- Smooth. Sweet but not cloying. Impeccably clean, but full of flavour. Fudge. White chocolate. Deep. Long.
- Finish
- Crisp. Brandy-snaps. Ginger cookies.
- Comment
- With dessert, or after dinner. A lovely, soothing, whiskey.
77
- Nose
- Big and honeyed. Bitter chocolate, wet leather, walnut cold tea, tobacco, maple syrup.
- Palate
- Sweetly robust: baked banana, overripe honeyed fruit with a praline/hickory crunch.
- Finish
- Long and thick.
- Comment
- Big soft and gentle, but too sweet for me.