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Legent

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

BEAM SUNTORY

ABV: 47%

Style: Bourbon

Region: Kentucky

Price per bottle:

Bottling: Distillery

Availability: Worldwide

Rob

8.7 7.7

Becky

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Cornbread slices with a

little honey drizzle.

Palate: Big sweet fudge

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runny caramel sauce

with ice cream layered

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and cherry segments.

Finish: Sweetness all

the way that eases

slowly into toasted oak

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Comments: A good solid

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Takes me right back to

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and bluegrass.

Nose: Softened

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toffee chews and freshly

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Palate: Riesen

chocolate chews and

Quality Street caramel

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toasted hazelnuts and

menthol as well.

Finish: Menthol rye

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Comments: A nicely

balanced Bourbon with

a bite.

Highland Park

Triskelion

EDRINGTON

ABV: 43.2%

Style: Single Malt

Region: Highland

Price per bottle:

Bottling: Distillery

Availability: Worldwide

Rob

8.5 9.1

Becky

Nose: Dense and

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notes and leather book

bindings. Citrus from

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trail mix with chocolate

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ice cream.

Palate: Creamy

and really full-on

hot chocolate with

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melting marshmallows.

Fruit and nut bars.

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Finish: Short and full of

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of smoke.

Comments: Perfect

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and soothe the day’s

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Nose: What begins quite

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rich and decadent

with aromas of walnut

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Palate: Bitter walnut

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caramel crunchie-

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Finish: Zingy and earthy.

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Comments: Decadent

and indulgent. Pour me

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Seven Seals

Sherry Wood Finish

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ABV: 40%

Style: Single Malt

Region: N/A

Price per bottle:

Bottling: Distillery

Availability: Worldwide

Rob

7. 4 7. 7

Becky

Nose: Takes you straight

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coated hazelnuts

and honey roasted

cashew nuts. There’s

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chocolate too.

Palate: We stay with

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of cherry cough sweets.

Finish: Doesn’t hang

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Comments: Great stuff

and well worth getting

your hands on.

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nosing with boozy

rum and raisin ice

cream and Maltesers.

It soon settles into

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macadamia nuts and

fragrant blossom with a

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Palate: Tarte tatin

swimming in thick

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nuts. Things get a

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liquorice and oak.

Finish: Menthol

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kick to it.

Comments: A big whisky

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Milk & Honey

Classic

MILK & HONEY DISTILLERY

ABV: 46%

Style: Single Malt

Region: N/A

Price per bottle:

Bottling: Distillery

Availability: Worldwide

Rob

8.0 8.5

Becky

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and redcurrants here. A

little dark treacle lurks

with dark chocolate

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Palate: Lots of dried

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ranging from roasted

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cream and meringue. A

little wood tannin

Finish: Dries gently with

those wood tannins

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slowly fading.

Comments: A decent

dram that has been well

looked after and thought

through from distillation

to maturation.

Nose: Beautiful wine

character with aromas

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crunchy malt element.

Palate: Light and fresh

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nose. Fresh fruits –

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along a malty and musty

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red wine and a hint of

charred oak.

Comments: Really well

balanced. Excellent use

of wine casks to mature

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SCOTLAND AMERICA

ISRAEL SWITZERLAND

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