Harrier Whisky

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 49 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Sylvestry. Wet leaves, humus. Cooked mushrooms. Chicken broth. With aeration, carries on creamier notes. Vanilla custard. Palate Round, almost syrupy. Then orange marmalade. Stem ginger. Finish Warm. Oaky, bitter orange. Comment A good development, even if astringence shows up at times.

Dave Broom Nose Singed grass moving into sulphur (boiled cabbage). Earthy with some estery notes, black peppercorn, nuts. Palate Clean and rounded and vanilla soft from the oak with pumpkin seed crispness coming from the cereal. Finish Finishes half way up the palate. Comment A theme seems to be emerging. Light spirit, plenty of oak, not long enough in cask to mellow.