n: Plywood and lemon peels

p: Raw lumber.  Oily mouthfeel.  Simple. Decent but uncomplex. 

A collaboration between Macallan master blender, Bob Dalgarno, and Spanish chefs Josep, Joan and Jordi Roca created from a combination of sherry butts, puncheons and refill hogsheads

nose is the best aspect, rather nice.

fruity (strawberry and raspeberry), very sweet — heavy on the red ripe fruit and vanilla cream. Apricots and clove spice w/ a thin mouthfeel/body middle into the finish. Overall there is a good measure of oak but the tannins don't dry it out until the very end. Very easy to drink.

n:  Brandy Old Fashioned.

p:  Werther's Original and lemons.  Intense candied varnish and toffee sticks around for an impossibly long finish. Great stuff.

N: New cutlery. Metallic.

p:  pleather and cheerios.  dull.

French Malt Whisky

Slightly peated, triple malt, triple wood; 46.1%; Annual Release of 7 Casks, Natural color, non-chill filtered.

Matured in rare cognac, new French, and American oak casks. 

n: grassy, snuffed match, paper pulp, buttery chardonay.

t: notes of peach and straw with a bit of highland peat to add complexity; clean and fruity. Creamy butterscotch and gentle oak presence. Overall this is light and elegant and put together well, but I like my whisky to have more charcter + bite to it.

OLD MALT CASK GLEN SPEY 25 YEAR OLD 

A single cask expression from independent bottler Hunter Laing & Co. of Glasgow, this 25 year old Speyside single malt was distilled at Glen Spey distillery October 1990 and matured in a single refill hogshead HL12803. Bottled in August 2016. 1 of 95 bottles.

n: sourdough and matchsticks

p: Bitter wood. Generic grains.  Could be any decent blend.  Could be any recent under-interesting Mortlach release.