Ayrshire Batch 1
Ladyburn Distillery - Girvan, Ayrshire |
Tastes & Smells
Kid's sweets on the nose! Candy fruits, fruit pastilles, strawberry laces and it's creamy like milk bottle sweets. So many sweeties! Just moving things forward a few years, but not too many, alco-pops come into play. Much more watery in taste, and slightly spicy/acidic (sweet chili sauce) and fizzy like sour laces - like sour strawberry laces. Still lots of sweetness apparent, but a sourness too: pear drops, lemony flavour turning to bitter lemon and fermented limes - washed down with some soda water. Still a bit of that sweetness in the finish but very limey. It makes you pull a face like sucking a lemon and has some length, but not in a very rich way. The strawberry-ness has now gone.
Worth shouting about?
The nose, and taste to a lesser extent, was very distinct: really sweet and full of strawberries. It was fun and exciting but was definitely nose > taste > finish in terms of quality. The actual taste and enjoyment wasn't brilliant, although still reasonably interesting. It's a bit too spicy / burny, yet watery and sweet.. bizarre in a way, yet pretty distinct with its fruity creaminess - only two whiskies I've had are anything like it, and they were both reviewed on my GRAINS site: This Port Dundas 20yo had a similar strawberry smell whilst Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky had a similar taste, with me noting 'pink candystand swirly candy'.
Summary & Ramblings
With all those sweets appearing this immediately evoked thoughts of being a kid in a candy store (or a sweet shop, more precisely!), perhaps ending in disappointment or the purchase of a sour gobstopper: nice for a while, but the fun gradually fades.
Tasted on: 16/02/14
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tldr;
A very interesting nose, full of strawberries and sweeties. It didn't taste as good as I'd hoped from the nose, although it had similar things going on. A bit too watery, a bit too spicy and a little vague, but I won't forget those strawberry sweets.