Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask Tasting notes and reviews
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Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask
- Brand
- Sullivans Cove
- Expression
- French Oak Cask
- Type
- Rest of World Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Abv
- 60.00%
- Produced at
- Tasmanian Distillery & Museum
- Availability
- Australia and New Zealand
- Website
- www.tasmaniadistillery.com
Whisky Magazine Issue 55
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Published April 2006.
Dave Broom
67- Nose
- A somewhat alarming Lucozade-like colour. Vegetal, with notes of hamster cage, sunflower seed, then masses of oak.
- Palate
- HUGE, sweet oak extract. Leather laid over charred wood and a machine-oil note that brings to mind a cooperage workbench.
- Finish
- A bit grubby.
- Comment
- Here's oak being used as a Romulan cloaking device to hide young(?) spirit. I can see what they're trying to do, but this needs tweaking.
Arthur Motley
55- Nose
- Grapes, rye bread, bruised cooking apples. With water up comes some chemical stinkiness, like boat diesel. Gooseberries and marzipan.
- Palate
- Rye, earthiness and rubber tyres. Intense.
- Finish
- Lots of European oak rubberiness, like gnawing on a Wellington boot.
- Comment
- A dirty, grizzly thing which dolls out some rough, tough flavours. Be (slightly) delighted and (mostly) disgusted all at the same time. Never ever boring, but very far from perfect.
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