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Whiskey in Bloom: Young Single Malt from Tel Aviv, Israel 🇮🇱 This is a double barrel of ex-Bourbon casks and STR (Shave, Toasted, Recharred) a technique invented by Dr. Jim Swan who is also a mentor to Kavalan and 10th St Distillery in /sanjose among many others. On the nose: reminds me of Taiwanese Kavalan but with a yeasty fino/oloroso sherry note which I haven't seen combined before. Also peated, but lightly so like Asian whiskeys. Last note is green apple candy. On the palate: tastes hotter than 46%, not heavy on the viscosity likely due to the low ABV, but medium-strong on the peat, Hibiki style. With a hint of water on the palate: a bit more honeyed sweetness comes out combined with Laphroigy (read: stronger) peat. Overall punches way above the pour price I paid for it ($11), would buy a bottle.
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Fun tasting with Penelope. They don't distill themselves, so it's all in the casks and finish, which, to be honest, is where most of the flavor comes from anyway. I do notice with a lot of these tastings that some of the cheaper expressions I find are the best outright. Here, I think the Wheated Bourbon, which sells for $40 at Total Wine, is a solid buy. The two other interesting ones were (1) the Rosé cask finish, which had a yeasty oloroso note to it (but I think I'd still prefer Sherry cask finished scotch like Dalmore) and (2) the 10-year high-rye bourbon, which is apparently impossible to find, but has nice rye baking spices to it like cloves and nutmeg with a good mouthfeel despite being 91 proof. Overall, I think my standards for independent bottlers are higher ever since I was introduced to Lost Lantern. I'm looking for juice that's really differentiated and I'm not sure that's what they were going for here.
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