Nose: Cherries, incense, vanilla, toffee apple, flambe orange, coffeed beans, BBQ sauce. The struck match I’ve found in virtually every sherry cask matured whisky from Eigashima/White Oak. Water brings out a savory note.
Palate: Cream sherry, orange candy, butter, nutmeg. Burnt toast, burnt euchalyptus, coffee beans. Water adds grapefruit. Medium bodied.
Finish: Sherry, nutmeg, roasted chestnuts, burnt toast, burnt euchalyptus, coffee beans. Water enhances the burnt euchalyptus and ends with some subtle oak dryness.
Last Word: All in all a fairly untaxing sherry cask matured whisky. It most likely won’t blow your mind but probably won’t offend to many either.
Rating: 82/100
Thank for your review! Was it sulfuried like other Akashi sherry cask whisky?
“The struck match I’ve found in virtually every sherry cask matured whisky from Eigashima/White Oak” Struck match is a sulpher note, though it is not as strong in this bottle as some of the older bottlings like 12 and 14 year old.
Thank you, Brian.