95 Tastings.com (Beverage Testing Institute)

Gold color. Aromas and flavors of apple cinnamon muffin, honey graham crackers, sassafras and ginger with lemon, and jasmine green tea with a round, lively, dry medium-to-full body and a tingling, nuanced, medium-length finish imparting elements of honey baked apple, brown baking spices, root beer float, and matcha. A Whiskey to savor like the smell of freshly baked bread or reading a good book under a cozy blanket; a great bottle to have in the collection.

94 The Whisky Advocate

The nose is luxuriously appealing, with milk chocolate, maraschino cherry, bramble, black currant, Nutella, baked citrus, apricot, mango, oak spices, toasted nuts, and cinnamon bark. Smooth and polished on the palate, the complex cask regime serves up flavors of milk chocolate, licorice, black grape, sultana, date, ginger root, currants, and clove. The finish serves up dried fruit and licorice, with hints of leather and coffee bean.