Hokuto 12 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 56 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose A bit restrained. Fruit and oak are well integrated. Watermelon. White peach. A touch of rose syrup. Opens on sweet syrupy notes. Tangerine juice. Polished floor. Palate Light and silky. Fruit basket. Malty sweetness at midpalate the drying out on a oaky touch. Finish Dry and nutty. Comment A pleasant summery dram. Keeps fruity all the way.

Dave Broom Nose Crisp and floral with cedar and wood ash/dead BBQ. Once again an almost wheat-like dusty sweetness. Slightly unripe (green banana, floral) and immature. Palate A very bright start, crisp, clean and gingery/japaleno. Then becomes a little too sweet: flat Irn-Bru and bubblegum. Finish Rather short. Dilute. Comment All front loaded, but doesn’t deliver all the way through.