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Liquor
Maker’s Mark Cask Strength (Re-Review)
Type
ABV
56.6%
Distiller
Nose
Bourbon spice, wood, caramel, ripe dark fruit and hints of citrus build up and mix with notes of toasted grains and vanilla.
Taste
Caramel, toasted nuts, wood, citrus, dark fruit, toffee and molasses.
Finish
Long and winding with notes of caramel, wood, citrus peel, raw grains, vanilla.
Nose
Fruity,rich,honey, little malmsey, hazelnut and cut fruit with toasty oak .
Taste
Rich and full. There are notes of rye and spice, barley malt, a little nut oil with butterscotch and vanilla.
Finish
Quite sweet with butterscotch and dry oak spice.
Liquor
Maker’s Mark Private Select Binny’s Barrel 38 b6
Type
ABV
55.65%
Distiller
Nose
Caramel,honey and some oak.
Taste
burnt sugar, and caramel, chocolate and banana
Finish
Long Kentucky hug
Liquor
Maker’s Mark Private Select LCBO Director’s Cut 2019
Type
ABV
53.8%
Distiller
Nose
Maple, carrot cake, oak, cereal
Taste
Maple candy, oak, tannic, orange drink
Finish
Orange candy, anise, cinnamon, earth
Nose
Corn whiskey, caramel syrup, rubbing alcohol, nuts and artificial sweetener. It’s rather terrible.
Taste
Artificial caramel corn, rubbing alcohol and a bit of vanilla.
Finish
Short drop of artificial sweetness and alcohol that plunges into sharp metallic bitterness.
Nose
Sweet barbecue, cinnamon. Deep syrupy bourbon notes, some dark sherry fruits: prunes and raisins. Buttery malt biscuits, a little milk chocolate.
Taste
Some Amrut-y tropical fruits, ripe banana, whoppers malt candy.
Finish
Ripe Cherry, honey toffee with a beautiful ginger spice.
Nose
Date sweetness balanced by tart red fruit and walnut bitterness, along with bright fresh tropical fruit.
Taste
Wine-y fruit influence, with lots of black fruit, plum, and a sprinkle of brown sugar.
Finish
Wine-y fruit influence, with lots of black fruit, plum, and a sprinkle of brown sugar.
Nose
Golden syrup, plums, a hint of jammy doughnut
Taste
Brown bread with butter, some hints of marmalade and toffee.
Finish
Continued toffee sweetness.
Nose
Rounded, truly complex and inviting spices alongside cooked apples and pears with touch of tropical fruit, Madeira and cocoa.
Taste
Herbal grasses support rich barley, butterscotch, dried apricot, vanilla, subtle coffee notes and clove.
Finish
Honeyed, spiced with great length.
Nose
Juicy raisins and baked apples, vanilla rice pudding and caramel sauce.
Taste
Honey and caramel to start, but quickly becoming more robust with darker sherry tones, burnt toffee, marzipan, and unsweetened cocoa.
Finish
Honeyed oak with dwindling unsweetened cocoa and spice.
Nose
Toffee, apples, charred oak, cinnamon, citrus, nutmeg, pine, vanilla.
Taste
Apples, butterscotch, ginger, honey.
Finish
Long, dry, lingering finish full of apples, some cocoa and slight flora.
Nose
Leather and oak notes, but also sesame seeds and fresh laundry.
Taste
Orange notes, and some residual oak (though not so oaky that I felt like I was chewing an oak stave).
Finish
Oaky and long.