7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Fruit and honey with a little smoke. A little lime.
Taste
Sweet fruit, a little salted caramel, more sugar and more salt
Finish
Very sweet, and very long finish, with a little salt in aftertaste
Nose
Fruit, honey with a little smoke, little lime.
Taste
Sweet fruit, a little salted caramel, more sugar and salt
Finish
Very sweet, and very long finish, with a little salt in aftertaste
Liquor
Port Ellen 21 1979 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Peat, cocoa, anise, currant, caramel, brown sugar
Taste
Cashew, peanut, cream, chocolate, anise, carrot
Finish
Lots of anise, bubblegum, pepper, butter, umami, basil, coconut oil
Nose
Lemon oils, brine, capers, oysters, sea shells, very clean on honey, brine, citrus
Taste
Thick honey, pretty rough at full strength, waxy, hot cayenne, seashells, lemon, capers, peat builds – menthol, brisket, charcoal, billowing smoke
Finish
Long and dry
Nose
Fruity, seaweed, bay leaves, and olive oil.
Taste
Big bodied, slightly sticky, chewy, edible seaweed and parsley
Finish
Hugely salty and equally peppery
Liquor
Port Ellen 23 McGibbon’s Provenance
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sea, fruitiness, saline, marine quality
Taste
dry fore-taste runs to pepperiness, softened by the characteristics of the cask
Finish
Long, warming, smoky plus the archetypal old leather
Liquor
Port Ellen 24 1982 Scott’s Selection
Type
ABV
57.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Fresh bitter almonds, apple peelings, ashes, whiffs of hot tarmac
Taste
Peat and pears. Goes on with marzipan, cough syrup, a little icing sugar and liquorice sticks
Finish
Lot of sugar powder infused with cinnamon, apples and cedar wood.
Nose
Sea salt, floor polish, mild antiseptic, and subtle oak.
Taste
Waxy, full, with pepper and light smoke.
Finish
Long and dry, sea-spray.
Nose
Rubbery peat, citrus, liquorice, honeydew melon, aniseed, cuban mint, tequila.
Taste
Dry, lemon, peat, melon, fruity, malt, vanilla, sweet liquorice, salt, rubber.
Finish
Rotting vegetables, broccoli, boiled carrots, peat, salt, rubby-rubber.
Nose
Wet stones, chalk, lime and even aspirin, porridgy and lemony
Taste
More peat, green curry, green pepper, tad drying
Finish
Medium long, peppery and still a tad drying, chalky
Nose
Grass, fresh almonds, cut apples.
Taste
Lemon marmalade, crystallised ginger, bitter oranges.
Finish
Long, with a little more pepper and even hints of aniseed.
Nose
Lemon peat, mineral, iodized, coaltar, farmer.
Taste
Well integrated alcohol, ashes, lemon, grapefruit.
Finish
Long, peaty.