59% ABV - India
Nose: Opening with rich, jammed fruits, and a peated character. The red fruits lead with touches of peppermint, cher... [Read more]
46% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: There are fresh fruits and spices, laced with wine and jelly notes. The slightly malted sweetness of Shelter P... [Read more]
49.8% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: No doubt this is a sweet dram! Corn oil, grains, light fruits, cereal, and graham cracker clamour up the walls... [Read more]
43% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: Very sweet, with a good dose of citrus, kumquat, and candied apple. There is some Jolly Rancher hard candy, le... [Read more]
52% ABV - Islay
Nose: An explosion of light fruits, peat, and ash. An earthiness with grasses and tropical fruits. There are hints o... [Read more]
59% ABV - India
Nose: Opening with rich, jammed fruits, and a peated character. The red fruits lead with touches of peppermint, cherrywood, and chocolate in behind.
Taste: The fruit explosion is real with currants, plums, ... [Read more]
46% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: There are fresh fruits and spices, laced with wine and jelly notes. The slightly malted sweetness of Shelter Point shines most here. The robust bottling strength gives you the nose tingles on deep dives.
Taste: The mouthfeel is quite light and brings fruits, be... [Read more]
49.8% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: No doubt this is a sweet dram! Corn oil, grains, light fruits, cereal, and graham cracker clamour up the walls of the glass. Lesser so, there is pear, white wine, melon, and light citrus. An impressive number of flavours, but all remaining very soft.
Taste: Unsurprisingly, it’s very sweet. An oily-creamy mo... [Read more]
43% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: Very sweet, with a good dose of citrus, kumquat, and candied apple. There is some Jolly Rancher hard candy, lemon-orange, and white cake swirling around somewhere too.
Taste: The sweetness continues to deliver making this a d... [Read more]
52% ABV - Islay
Nose: An explosion of light fruits, peat, and ash. An earthiness with grasses and tropical fruits. There are hints of an orchard fruit pie, with some vegetal and floral notes in the background.
Taste: It is a medium-density vegetal peat, getting more ... [Read more]
44% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: An overwhelming amount of spice (nutmeg, clove, cinnamon) followed by some bread, fresh oak, and a light sweetness in the background.
Taste: Lots more of those spices, but now accented with r... [Read more]
50.1% ABV - Islay
Nose: Peat smoke! Sweet, partly medicinal or iodine notes, herbal, with light fruits bordering on a floral-tropical note. The smoke is slightly woody, wet bark. Tame for the ABV.
Taste: Wet, heavy smoke, with a noted sweetness and spice... [Read more]
42% ABV - British Columbia, Canada
Nose: Upfront spices and fruits, with some citrus-based astringency (tamed with a little time and water), and then it works its way into sugars, butterscotch, and vanilla. Banana notes start to appear after time with some floral and grasses.
Taste: Distinctly spiced, with fruits, malty notes, and b... [Read more]
40% ABV - Speyside
Nose: Juicy red fruits, sour cherry or red currant, raisin, dried plum, and spices. There is malty-mustiness in the background. Really quite clean overall.
Taste: Red fruits, spices, candied apples, caramel (possi... [Read more]
43% ABV - Yukon Territory, Canada
Nose: Malt, roasted malt or coffee, and malted cereal that defines the sweetness of this dram. There are some light fruits–pear and banana–intertwined with some Manuka honey, and minor liquorice.
Taste: It’s an amalgamation of sweet grain, roasted malt,... [Read more]
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