Official tasting notes.
Nose: Fruity with warm brioche and mixed berry jam, then plum pudding. Lots of toffee, some lifted ethereal alcohol, fruchocs morphing into carob coated plums, sherry wood, some leather, toast and some earthy peat. Very well balanced between the gentle peat, the carob coated plums, the leather and a medley of mint toffee, crème brulee and crème caramel, especially retro-nasally. The longer it’s left to develop the more obvious the port wood influence becomes.
Palate: Big, mouth coating, silky, a whack of sweet mint toffee and wintergreen with a decent dash of slightly sour and astringent woody herb (rosemary) and some cassia bark, toasty oak, buttered warm spiced fruit loaf, then some menthol or eucalyptus which gets very well integrated with the wintergreen and rosemary.
Finish: Long, warming and woody (mallee root), some drying peat, leather and refreshing bitter leaves (endive, witlof and rocket). The smouldering woodiness is persistent.
Iniquity Gold Batch No.3 – Tin Shed Distilling Australian Single Malt Whisky 700ml 60%
