This is a rum from the Foursquare distillery based in Barbados. It is a 12 year old rum ged in Ex-Bourbon barrels and Madeira casks. It has no sugar added to it. Let’s see how it holds up. ABV: 40% Nose: Caramel, fresh bread, dark chocolate, black pepper, heavy vanilla. Palate: Light mouthfeel. Warm. Vanilla, black pepper, light […]
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This Mezcal comes from the Mixtexa Poblana in Puebla. It was cooked in a conical earthen oven for 6 days, crushed by hand, fermented in a hybrid steel, copper, and clay still with natural spring water. It was produced in July of 2019. Mezcalero: Atelo Ramirez Batch: PICH02-19MX ABV: 48.4% Nose: Heavy Green Vegetals, bell peppers and cucumbers. Brine, salinity,
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Cinco Sentidos Bruto Reposado This is an offering from Cinco Sentidos, and a slightly unusual one as this will be my 2nd ever aged Mezcal. This one was made from A.Inaquidens agave, cooked in an earth oven for 6 days, Hand Crushed, and fermented in stone tubs with pulque. Filipino style stills and was then
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This is an offering from Independent Bottler Habitation Velier, and is an unaged rum from Reunion Islands. The esters count is between 225-500 gr/hlpa. This was bottled with no color added and was non-chill filtered. ABV: 61.1% Nose: Pungent and Aromatic. Cotton Candy Bubble Gum, Pineapples, Guava, Strawberries Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel. Warm, Heavy Bubble Gum funk, Over-ripe
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This is a 13 year old Ledaig offering bottled by Single Cask Nation. It was distilled in 2005 and bottled in 2018 after having been matured in a 2nd fill sherry cask. This was bottled at cask strength with no color added and was non-chill filtered. ABV: 57.1% Nose: Raspberry Jam, industrial smoke, light minerality, figs, brine,
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Eli’s Mezcal Room tasting I will be sharing an experience I got to do virtually via Eli’s Mezcal room based out of New York City. By coordinating with Dan who runs Eli’s Mezcal room we were able to get 6 samples of various Mezcals, all blind until the time which we tried them, wrote some
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7 Year I tried this blind, so keep that in mind while reading these notes. This is a 7ish year old WFP private barrel, bottled for a private group. ABV: 57% ABV Nose: Brown Sugar Bomb, Ethanol, oak spice, pepper, tobacco leaf, light funk. Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel. Warm, Pepper, Brown Sugar, Caramel, nice oak structure, slight funk,
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This is a bottling from Maguey Melate. This Arroqueno was aged for 12-15 years, cooked in an earth oven for 5 days, and fermented for 12-15 days. Let’s see how well it holds up Mezcalero: Semei Garcia Ramos Batch: SEM-ARR-001 ABV: 47.8% Nose: Aromatic, cotton candy, vanilla cream, cream cheese Palate: Medium mouthfeel. Warm, cream cheese, minerals, earthy, Bell Peppers,
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This is an offering from Distiller Worthy Park. This sherry cask edition was matured in ex-bourbon barrels for 4 years before being finished in a combination of PX and Oloroso sherry casks for another year before being bottled, and was aged 4 years tropically and 1 year in Europe. This was bottled with no color
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This is a bottling of the LROK from Hampden, this Single Cask was botled exclusively for the New York Market. This bottling was aged all 9 years in Jamaica, was distilled in a 100% Pot still, and has an ester count between 350-450 esters. This was bottled at cask strength with no color added, non
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