N: Lush, rancio, resinous woody sherry monstrosity, wood polish / varnish. That's about as rich as a whisky nose gets. P: Huge. you can really taste the wood on this, but I like it a lot. It gives it a very medicinal profile when combined with the rich sherry, very cough syrupesque. F: Sweet and syrupy. The nose is phantasmal, but the palate is almost too big for its britches (or my britches, which is saying a lot -- I have very small britches -- wait, what does that imply?). I started off with A- and I ended on B+.
Sherry bomb. Nothing but old dark sherry - softer palate than expected. Strawberries and raisins (Dried Strawberries?) something of oak resin in the finish …. Yep the resin sticks with it longer than I like and turns bitter. Would have gotten an "A" but for bitterness in finish. Really nice very old sherry - age comes out in the finish.
n: Um, sherry. It screams sherry. Sort of the dark chocolate sherry thing. Christmassy wood.
p: Chew a damp piece of wood and chase it with sherry. Bitter rather than sweet. Intense and mouthcoating. Sort of a step up from the Glendronach 15 Revival and a step down from the Glendronach 1968 20.
Nose is quite familiar in that other old, heavily-sherried Longmorns smell a lot like this. Gets me excited. Floral stuff with Bazooka gum.
Palate has a little disappointing rubberyness that keeps this from being as great as it could be. Strongly honeyed with deep, grapey winey stuff. Rich and quite tannic, finishes pretty leathery.
Let it open up to soften out and sweeten up a little. It's still a huge herry bomb that hits the spot, if not perfectly. B/B+
Holy crap, I'm the lowballer on this one? Did you guys actually taste this? Sweet and syrupy???
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