Lots of cherry with a hint of rye spices. Not getting the smoked. Dried fruit and nuts.
12. Sonoma distilling Cherry Wood smoked rye
11. Silkie
Silkie: the Legendary Dark Silkie Irish. Peaty. (Weird.. it’s Irish)
Smoky/peaty flavors. Maybe some dark chocolate hiding in there somewhere? But mostly peat.
10. Breckenridge port cask finish whiskey
Breckenridge port cask finish whiskey.
A bit of that rye spice, with dried fruit and aromas (raisin?) and a hint of the port lurking in there.
Slight red/ruby tint in the color.
6: Filey Bay
Filey Bay (UK) Flagship single malt
Pale straw color. Honey and hay/grass in the nose. Floral.
First taste – honey and maybe something nutty? It’s very subtle.
Opens up with lots of butter and herbals. Very nice.
5: Black Button Bourbon
Black Button distillery pre-prohibition style bourbon.
So much corn in the nose. (guessed bourbon before I looked).
Softer flavors than many bourbons. Vanilla, butter, spices. Very hot finish.
4: Starward Solera Australian single malt
Burnished/amber color. Nutty and fruity nose. Peaches?
Long sweet finish with honey and butter notes. Dried fruit flavors – apricot maybe?
3: Uncle Dearest 1856 premium aged
USA. I think I’ve had this before.
Caramel apples in the nose.
Tons of pepper in the first sip. (is this a rye?) More tropical fruit and grass as it opens up.
Gold/amber color.
JJ Corry The Hanson Irish
Video tasting notes from Flaviar.
This was the December 2nd entry in the 2023 advent calendar.
Honey, tangerine, and grass in the nose.
Tropical fruit and a bunch of oranges in the first taste.
Pale straw color. Short tart finish.
A couple of drops of water opened more oakey flavors.
(Dec 1) Sagamore Spirit Rye
Day one of my advent calendar for 2023 (I’m getting a late start because I was traveling).
The vial itself is unlabeled so I tried it before knowing what it was. My first impressions were the mint, dill, and pepper that I associate with a rye, so I think that my first whiskey is an American rye.
The first taste was like an old fashioned. I always have my old-fashions with rye. And there was the hint of orange and lots of pepper.
Looking in the notebook that came with the Advent calendar I see that this is a sagamore Rye. So I was right.
There is also a YouTube channel that comes with this Advent calendar. Here is the recording for this particular whiskey. Last year they had written notes, which I rather prefer, but this was interesting. This dude tasted all sorts of things that I did not. So hopefully I can learn something from him.
Lagavulin 8
Nose: smoke, camphor, bacon
Mouth: dark chocolate, cherry, tobacco smoke
Long campfire smoke finish.