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Having just received the new Ailsa Bay in today we decided to have our first team tasting session. Here are our tasting notes:
Nose:
Vicky - Soft peat turning to freshly laid tarmac warming in the sun. Cardamon pods appear once it warms up.
Kat - Heather and damp moss. Rusty fence posts and used cooking oil.
Mike - Sweet gentle smoke, smouldering embers with a touch of solder. Singed peach skins becoming cinder toffee and hot dark treacle, caramel and well baked potato chips (scraps maybe)
Taste:
Vicky - Sweet citrus peatiness leading to white pepper. The tarmac stays but in the background.
Kat - Soft toffee fudge bars, creamy with rich meat gravy finished with smoky leather. Sticky toffee pudding with a facefull of peat.
Mike - Sweet ash and coffee grinds.Becomes more toffee with time. Cinnamon, star anise and hot grill pan.
Finish:
Mike - Cardamon and white pepper.
Summary:
This is peatier than the ppm(s) would suggest but that is probably due to its youth which does show. Β Mike and Vicky were not bowled over but expectations were high. Β The youngest member of the team, Kat, by over 20 years (dam her) really liked it and the packaging so it is appealing to the market it is aimed at.