Producer’s Tasting Notes
NOSE: Mint toffee, wood-smoke, mixed apricots and apricot fruit leather, dried cherries, nuttiness, some leather, then smoked almonds, then some wine gums and violets; gets smokier and the usual thymol/eucalyptus puts in a late but welcome appearance.
PALATE: Sweet peat and peanuts, much smokier than the nose; charry ashes, smoked mint toffee; gets much smokier in the palate, sweet and leathery, nutty; smoked apricot jam.
FINISH: Charred paper and leather, nutty, mint toffee and roasted nuts; quite smoky.
Comment: The early nose was less smoky than later on. The palate is full on smoked nuts. A unique mix of mint/eucalyptus and smoked nuts.
John Atkins (verified owner) –
This is the closest thing I’ve ever had to a great Whisky. So close. It’s in there somewhere. It markets itself as a rebel in the den of iniquity…but deep down it’s just a mummy’s boy – with fairy bread in the lunchbox, with the crusts cut off. A tad sweet for me.
Once the alcohol burns off…there’s some interesting flavours hidden in the jammy doona. The tasting notes talk of Mallee smoke and charry ashes on the palate, but I didn’t get any of it.The finish though is long and there’s the smoke… It’s more of a “ are they back-burning today?” kind of feel. Distant, but a delightful surprise. Where was that hiding? Back in the ol’ days when we were a Federation and we could freely move between States, I travelled around South Australia and I do get the sense of terroir this alludes to…but this dram is a faded postcard.
There seems to be lots of batches of Iniquity (I checked their website and they are up to 19.) I’d be interested to see where they have taken this, and will definitely try some more, but this bad boy needs a few more drops of sinister sauce.