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Nose is strongly peaty. Close to an Islay, but kind of over the top. Fresh peat flavours, and some maltiness.Incredible peat flavours. Hop-slam of peat. Sparkling effervescent on the tongue and again…

Mr ralfy.com reviewed this a quite while back stating it was a whisky for a more advanced pallet with a budget. I think that is the perfect description, this is an interesting and somewhat challenging…

This is a 'craft' version of the classic Laphroaig 10. No colour, or chill filtering or watering down. Here are my thoughts* Nose: opens up with lemon curd and honey cured bacon, then some classic Lap…

Just a year younger than the standard bottling of Caol Ila 12 and much like the Provenance Laphroaig its very similar quality but in a slightly different way.* Nose: a light and delicate nose with smoked…

This is a 5 year old expression from the new kids on the Islay block, Kilchoman. This distillery has great character and this bourbon matured whisky shows it off nicely* Nose: initially it’s lots of…

First things first i can't guarantee that this is the correct cask number. Connosr has two in its bottle listings but im not exactly sure which one this was from.* Nose: tarry rope, black tea and diesel…

It's whisky to wow the senses.* Nose: all over the place. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a nose which addressed so many different aspects of a whisky compass. There is hickory BBQ smoke, a juniper and gin…

• Nose: slightly oily, salty little bit of caramel, a very floral honey and I can’t get the thought of smoked fish out of my head. Bread dough and a tiny bit of pretty raw tequila. With water really…

This is a lightly peated Jura, which i would say is pretty similarly aged to the 10, and it tasted very much like that. But its an improvement.* Nose: reasonably phenolic peat, pepper, quite an oily nose…

Of the three Jura's i've tried this is by far and away the best and the only one i would recommend to buy a bottle of. It's very nice.* Nose: a little closed you really have to go digging for this nose…