90-95 Wine Enthusiast

"The bouquet features multilayered scents of baked pear/apple pastry, walnut, roasted chestnut and maple. The palate entry is firm, semisweet, oaky, and spicy; the midpalate is well-balanced, sweet, oaky and compellingly baked, with finishing touches of rancio, hard cheese and caramel. Finishes elegantly and lushly, with final parting tastes of pepper and brown sugar."

98 International Wine & Spirit Competition - International Wine & Spirit Competition

Sweetcorn and sweet smoke; this is a delicious whisky with lovely notes of soft marshmallow and hints of oak spice and sweet peat. Richly fruited, zesty with buttery pastry too. Perfectly balanced.

94 The Whisky Advocate

The youthful age statement may take many scotch drinkers by surprise, but don’t let double-digit bias prevent you from enjoying this exciting yet easy-drinking peat bomb. Salt water and seaweed, smoke and sweet peat tussle on the nose, while vanilla, fresh berries, and ample nuttiness spread out and take hold. The structured, balanced palate is creamy, nutty, and spiced, showcasing brown-sugar bacon, smoked salt, milk chocolate, pepper, and well-integrated oak, all wrapped up like a cigar with flakes of ash and sustained smoke. This precocious youngster shows more complexity than some whiskies twice its age, making it a remarkable find. Number 6 in the 2020 Top 20

95 The Whisky Advocate

Aged for seven years in ex-Sherry casks, this is a rich and elegant fruitcake of a whiskey. Look for a burnished gold hue and pear and spice aromas. The soft palate is loaded with figs, dates and cherries drizzled with maple syrup. This is a dessert-worthy, beautiful sipper.

94 The Whisky Advocate

Spending 21 years in a first-fill ruby port cask has imbued this superb whiskey with firm, plump, and intense fruit flavors with layers of raspberry, black currant fruit pastilles, blackberry jelly, and peppercorn. Bushmills and port casks are a heavenly match, and this has a warm, enveloping fruitiness on the tongue, with raspberry, plum, cranberry sauce, a surge of clove and pepper, milk chocolate, and a dry finish.

5 The Whiskey Wash

It’s hard to find anything to dislike about this well executed Irish single malt. It offers a long finish with a smooth, slightly velvety texture that gives way to a lingering finish that gently intensifies in warmth with the perfect onset of spice on the very back end. It has an incredibly well balanced flavor profile that walks a perfect line between its approachability and remarkable depth of character.

93 Tastings.com (Beverage Testing Institute)

Medium gold color. Aromas and flavors of dried mango, canned pineapple, toffee, and bread pudding with a round, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, engaging, medium-length finish imparting notes of butterscotch, mango sticky rice, dried apricot, and roasted mixed nuts. Dried tropical fruits on sweet caramel bread pudding; a complex cloud of dreamy Whiskey.

94 Wine Enthusiast

Toasty, warm cocoa and roasted almond on nose and palate lead into a bracing finish. Lemon peel astringency is framed by white pepper and ginger heat. 100% barley, including the koji. Best Buy.

93 Tastings.com (Beverage Testing Institute)

Gold color. Aromas and flavors of grilled sweet corn with vanilla and pepper, cedar, and white pepper with a full body and a long finish with suggestions of toasted hazelnut. A very complex high proof Bourbon, perfect for sipping with a few drops of water; high end cocktails could be made and pulled in various directions from citrusy to stirred. BEST BUY

4 The Whiskey Wash

Palate: The palate is very even all the way through. No hint of being on a flavor roller coaster even though it is hot at 99 proof it was still very smooth. The flavor profile seems simple with a great mouthfeel and very warming. Flavors include leather, oak, walnut shell, and maple. This feels like a good three season bourbon with those seasons being: last season, this season, and next season. I felt this was a great year round bourbon that's great for sipping or mixing. The flavor profile reminds me most of spring with it's fresh leaf aroma and hints of fruit. It's warm but not too warm. A pleasant way to wake up your palate after a dark winter season. Plus, this bottle won't break the bank.