On ice at Intercontinental Hotel, Madrid, sipping spring water along. It pours pale golden with green shades and oily streaks. Mild aromas of grain (mainly corn; barley and wheat too), some banana. Mouthfeel is powerful and dry. Taste is rather mild (which the nose foresaw) with umami and mild tannins. Boozy, warm finish in the surprisingly long swallow.
@RikS Ratings are inherently subjective. And it takes some time to “get to know” any particular reviewer’s scale. For example, @markjedi rates lower (in general) than I do. No big deal. He’s got a much wider “tasting experience” than I do....By reading his assessments and adding 3-4 points, I often get something close to what I would score that whisky.....if our tastes converge on that particular expression. Which it doesn’t always. Clear as mud, right? I also know that I can rely on @Victor ‘s assessments of bourbon to match my own pretty closely about 80% of the time. If he likes or loves a bourbon, I’d probably buy it blind.
@huineman Thank you. And I hope - god forbid - that you didn't take my question as a criticism or questioning your rating, certainly not intended as such. On the contrary, I find the reviews on here very helpful to both steer towards or away from certain expressions, and having a 'comparable' understanding of peoples' reviews and taste help me in this respect. So, someone who likes, say, Kilkerran better than Farclas 15 probably generally appreciates the 'salty tang' in a whisky more than I do - and that helps me find my way better too.