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N: From what appears to be fully bourbon-matured malty malt, notes include glycerine, beeswax, pine/cedar wood [the brilliant Serge again], hazelnut-y/husky gooey confectionery and ice cream desserts. An hour later we’re talking of Shreddies with a nice varied sweetness and subtle vegetal smoke-peat with some Bovril-like Pan-Asian flavours that exceed all expectation.
T: Initially sweet-sharp, seemingly distillate first, oak second. Travels along a barley-straight road thereafter before softening delightfully and turning more woody > malty and a touch cardboard-y-dry [quibbles really].
F: With a fusty honey dunnage profile, we’ve a better bourbon finish than the Forester [WLP], with an apt fungal > fresh conclusion.
C: Fabulous bourbon-like whisky with a malty heart.

N: We are in banoffee pie territory here and who can argue with that for a start. Lots of caramel and toffee here with butter-fudge and thick/wash-like malt.  Theres a big dose of oak showing here - mahogany and pinewood and an age of around 18-22 id guess. Id guess a sherry cask considering the rich and creamy, banana, orange liqueur and sticky raisin ginger cake body. Theres some freshness too along with vibrancy despite its 40% abv.
T: Complex/multi-faceted and powerful arrival. Surprisingly spirit led [sweet~sour] but it revealingly moves to a drying and fresh fruitiness before developing to a softer, viscose/waxy oakiness.  Adding water bizarrely brings out the spirit’s astringency so id go neat - after all its only 40% [the minimal abv for whisky], but this one is powerful enough nevertheless. I think alectron’s ‘ink’ note is inspired  - for me specifically ‘Parker’ pen cartridge ink, blue ;]
F: Moves to a fresh and thick woody gluey mouthful with ground pepper, spearmint and bitter vanillas finally showing through. Quite fresh at the end with dry, sour & sweet tannic stewed apples and dry vanillas. Still with a spirited vibrancy till the last with a chocolate-raisin maltiness at the death. Give it time for a surprisingly long reveal [at least 10 minutes for the sweet maltiness to show]
C: Well aged, old style [Speyside] malt with lots of depth and character. Not an easy one but well worthy of an accolade.

Scores a B+