White Owl Whisky (5cl Mini)
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Tasting Notes by YakLord
White Owl is a Canadian wheat-based whisky (meaning at least three years old) that has been run through a charcoal filter to remove all colour. Obviously it was created for the upscale cocktail crowd for use in drinks that would normally use vodka. Several reviewers with good reputations have given this whisky extremely good reviews, including Davin de Kergommeaux, likley the world's leading expert on Canadian Whisky.
This 50ml sample came to me as a 'Value Added Promotion' attached to a bottle of Highwood Distillers Centennial 10 yr Rye Whisky (which has also received rave reviews) that I'd purchased. Unfortunately, the mini was a PET bottle, and from what I can gather, may have been kicking around for a while...which likely resulted in what has been, to date, my worst experience with whisky.
Normally I'd use the advanced scoring system, but I'd done that this time around, I would have ended up giving it 0 out of 100 because I wouldn't have been able to give it any points in any of the categories...
My notes are as follows:
Nose: Paint Thinner, Acetone, Nail Polish Remover...Davin and Chip Dystra talk about Sprite and other notes, but the only other thing I could pick up was faint traces of flat cream soda.
Palate: Flat Sprite with a bad bottled-mineral water aftertaste, the only thing I've ever tasted that was worse was cheap Shochu (a Japanese grain alcohol). Adding a few drops of water just made it taste more like water...
Finish: None, just an unpleasant burned plastic aftertaste.
The problem I have is that White Owl is supposedly quite a good whisky, yet the mini was really awful, which makes me hesitant to buy a full 75cl bottle, although since it seems to have been designed as a mixer, perhaps I'll give it a pass as I prefer to drink my whisky neat.
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Whisky details
Distillery/Brand:
Highwood Distillers
Bottling:
White Owl Whisky (5cl Mini)
ABV:
40%
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Comments
Reyzar wrote:
That's terrible! Good thing you only have 5cl.
YakLord wrote:
@reyzar - it was bad. First whisky I've actively disliked and had to pour out (as you pointed out, good thing it was a 5cl mini!). Even my wife, who doesn't drink but does appreciate the nose on some whiskies, thought it smelled like nail polish remover.
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