House Review
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Intro:
This is a single cask of Westland spirit that is aged in Garryana oak.
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Nose:
Sweet vanilla, baking spices, pungent fruit, grassy, some wet cardboard, Splenda.
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Taste:
Sweet confectioner sugar, think to medium mouth feel. West cardboard, grassy mint, floral and some heat.
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Finish:
Long, growing sour, bitter and minty. Really flora, perfume-y, grass. That artificial sugar note is here in spades.
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Overall:
Everything about this tastes strange, artificial and accentuates some of my biggest issues with Makers Mark 46 - my previously most Splenda-y bottle ever. It's amplified, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out why Westland is still using Garryana for anything but quick finishes. Yikes.
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Score:
3
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