Old Pogue 9 Years Old, Master's Select

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 45 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Maple syrup. Pancakes. Brown sugar. Palate Light to medium. Rounded. Garden mint. Herbal. Leafy. Grass especially. Remarkably so. Finish Very sweet, but refreshing. Comment The body is well rounded, but the flavours less so.

Dave Broom Nose Opens with a rye flour note. On the spicy side of the fence. Water brings a fragrant note into play: rose petals. Palate Very perfumed, almost artificially so: roses and violets. Intense...and slightly overwhelming. Finish Vanilla. Comment Like sitting in a bar next to a gent who has overdone the aftershave.