Nose: Treacle and butterscotch, with baked pineapple, sweet malt and fig.
Palate: Honeyed cinnamon and barley sugar, with a smidge of salt bringing balance alongside ripe orchard fruit.
Finish: Crystallised ginger lingers alongside vanilla and milk chocolate.
Nose: Soft, approachable, ripe fruit, and old oak with a dash of ginger and honey.
Palate: Soft again with sweet malt, a gentle grainy oak, and a distant smoked honey.
Finish: Delicate and smooth.
Nose: Sweet with spices and stem ginger in syrup. Orange zest, freshly ground black pepper and mixed peels.
Palate: Thick, spicy palate with notes of Seville orange marmalade and allspice. Peanut butter, toffee and barrel char develop later on.
Finish: An oily, spicy finish
Nose: Soft vanilla and sawdust as it opens, leading on to notes of dried fruit and mixed nuts.
Palate: Drying at first with oak and cinnamon, before hints of fresh apple and caramelised pear bring a juiciness to the palate.
Finish: A very subtle touch of smoke develops underneath toffee and blueberry on the finish.
Nose: Powerful peat-smoke with sea-water saltiness, the liquor of fresh oysters, a citrus sweetness.
Palate: A rich dried-fruit sweetness with clouds of smoke and strong barley-malt flavours, warming and intense. At the back of the mouth is an explosion of pepper.
Finish: Huge, long, warming peppery finish with an appetising sweetness.
Nose: Deep malty aromas with hints of pear and sherry maturity.
Palate: Silky texture with a rich taste of malt and smoke.
Finish: Long finish with smoky and spicy tones.
Nose: Fruity, malty aromas. Just a hint of peat smoke with a good dollop of gooey toffee.
Palate: Soft smoke, barley malt and manuka honey. Hints of Malt-driven palate with soft spices.
Finish: Malt and smoke on the finish.
Nose: Dark chocolate and glacé cherries, with apple and creamy vanilla-infused crême brûlée.
Palate: Thick and fruit, with cream, stewed apple, candied orange and sweet vanilla.
Finish: Dry, with lingering spice."
Nose: Complex aromas of gristy malt, oaty biscuits and green apples.
Palate: A subtle herbal, leafy note at first, then the rich malt arrives, with some classy oaky notes and a hint of spice. Slightly restrained, but complex stuff.
Finish: Warm, rich and spicy.
Nose: Dark chocolate and white raisins… complex, deep, and wonderful.
Palate: Silky leather, dark chocolate, and perhaps caramelized brûlée and a dash of cinnamon.
Finish: Beautiful, elegant, lingering, with a tad of citrus spice wafting in the air that opens more with a splash.
Nose: Dried fruit notes at the fore, soon joined by rich chocolate and a subtle nuttiness. Hints of struck match, anise, cinnamon and vanilla.
Palate: Dark chocolate, Seville orange, flaky pastry and crunchy fruits fresh from the orchard. Give it a minute and the anise on the NOSEcomes running back too.
Finish: More dark chocolate and drying spice.
Nose: From 20 inches away I’m getting banana bread and rich biscuity sweetness. Nose in. Old leather-bound book and Black Forest. Give it 2 seconds and it livens up with hot cherries, orange marzipan, cooked red apples and a touch of smoke. The banana bread theme continues. Infinite layers of complexity. Filled my heart with joy.
Palate: Extremely bitter and dusty at first, explodes with savoury Oxford marmalade, walnut shell, tobacco smoke and dried plum. Sweet wood smoke comes in… this is just silly good.
Finish: Cherry and bitter nut shell back. Sweet and smooth.
Nose: Burnt toast with a touch of iodine. Palate: Woodsmoke, dry oak tannins, tar, iodine and rich honeyed barley. A splash of water reveals sweet flambeed banana. Finised: Lingering whisps of smoke with toasted barley and iodine.
Nose: Classic Yamazaki strawberries and dried fruits with floral notes coming from the Mizunara cask whisky. Fragrant sandalwood and maybe coconut. Certainly a whisky where you could get lost in its nose!
Palate: The dried berries remain lively on the palate (it even develops some raspberry notes along the way), but they're dialled back a bit to make room for light oak, white peach and a small amount of spice.
Finish: Vanilla lasts and lasts, with spicy but sweet cinnamon acting as a final flourish.