Douglas...
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Francis Darroze Tasting Notes
Francis Darroze Les Grands Assemblages Armagnac 12 year old 43%
Tasted: Sept 2014
The nose displays a shed load of oak, both creamy and grainy Limosin. Hints of slightly sweetened dried fruit follow with a touch of dusty spice. With time hints of bruised apple appear.
The palate is soft and less oaked, which allows some sweet grape and dried fruit to be discerned. A gentle aged rancio with again plenty of spice. Not amazingly complex but a good length with quite a drying, bitter oak finish.
Francis Darroze Les Grands Assemblages Armagnac 20 year old 43%
Tasted: Sept 2014...
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Speciality Drinks Ltd Lagavulin Tasting Notes
Elements of Islay LG1 56.8%
Bourbon/ Tasted: Sept 2014
A classic ‘vulin nose of robust apricot and medicinal herbs. There is a pleasant background of milky oak but the spirit character dominates.
The palate is full and soft with apricot and citrus fruit along with hints of burnt wood, tar, smoked kippers and medicinal peat. Whoa! That’s an intense middle. It definitely blows the cobwebs away! Very mouth-watering finish with lingering dusty peat.
Water emphasises the citrus – orange and Satsuma and brings out the gentle saltiness and a touch of iodine. The palate has become quite dusty and spicy...
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Pierde Almas Mescal Tasting Notes
La Purrita Verda Mescal Joven 40%...
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Speciality Drinks Ltd Laphroaig Tasting Notes
Elements of Islay LP1 58.8%
Bourbon/ Tasted: Sept 2014
A fresh, pungent and medicinal nose with hints of Islay vegetation, fleshy apricot and tobacco. Superb intensity with Laphroaig at it’s stinkiest and manuriest!
The palate is intense, smoky and medicinal. There is plenty of soft apricot and citrus to balance. Long, with a mouth-watering, grassy, reedy finish.
With water the nose becomes a little soapy and it emphasises the ferny herbs and manure. On the palate it brings out the citrus fruit rather well. The smoke has become gentler and it allows the gorgeous, slightly sweet barley to put in...
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Papadiablo Mescal Tasting Notes
Papadiablo Especial Mescal 47%
Produced in Miahuatlan in the highlands of Mexico, this is distilled using a copper still heated by log fire. Four types of agave are used – Madrecuishe, Bicuishe, Mexicana and Espadin.
Lot PPD-003/ Tasted: juli 2014
Seriously pungent ‘off the still’ aromas but they are balanced buy a lovely sweetness. Like the Del Mageuy there is a touch of white spirit vinegar and a gentle sweet, pulped Agave note.
The palate is soft and lightly smoked with plenty of delicious Agave flavours. Like the nose there is a touch of ‘off the still’ oiliness and the...
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