Best tasting notes EVER!

[Trey Manthey]

David Driscoll seems to be getting a wee bit carried away:
http://spiritsjournal.klwines.com/kl...t-is-here.html

A masterpiece! I wish all reviews were this grandiose.

[Tucker]

Quite.

I'll offer up this from the SMWSA...

Peat smoke drifts from a nearby island across calm waters – the sun is going down after a hot day on the beach – a driftwood fire is now lit on shingle between rock-pools – barbecued pork ribs, langoustines, lobster, then lemon meringue pie for dessert – nose the dram – ginger, Germolene, tobacco, boxing gloves – paint your own picture – Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction? – taste it now – root beer, ice-cream, bananas, Old Holborn tobacco, liquorice cigarette papers, burnt heather, barley sugars rolled in ash – this whisky evoked all of these for us – now test your own imagination – it’s from the Sound of Islay.

Or this gem...

We found quite a bit of fruit on the nose – tinned pears, passion fruit and ‘someone peeling tangerines in the a recently painted hospital’ – in addition we enjoyed lavender, orange blossoms, patchouli, burnt paper, smoky bacon and well-kept stables – quite complex all in all. The palate had Elastoplasts and gauze bandages, star anise, walnut fudge, honeysuckle, nutty tobacco and baklava. Water brought freesias and parma violets, creosote and peat fires to the nose, while the palate became sweeter, developing slightly burnt treacle tart, sugar cane and dark chocolate coated marzipan with some coconut to finish.

Any of the SMWSA (via Whiskey Apostle) notes are a bit over the top.

[SWC]

Peeled tangerines in a recently painted hospital.

God almighty.

[ebo]

I've often wondered how any human being could possibly get all that from a glass of whisk(e)y. What a bunch of nonsense.

[BigRich]

No anise? Well I guess Joe and Jimmy aren't getting anywhere near it.

[Jonny.Applebury]

I've often wondered how any human being could possibly get all that from a glass of whisk(e)y. What a bunch of nonsense.

I agree that the Scotch Malt Whisky Society tasting notes describe more than any one person should be able to pick up. That said, the SMWS uses a tasting panel to decide on their whiskies, and it is completely believable that a group of whisky tasters will put together all of those flavors and smells. They probably have a marketing person write the filler words that get you from one flavor descriptor to the next, but you shouldn't doubt that someone in the room said they smelled that oil smoke from a two-stroke engine.

[ebo]

I agree that the Scotch Malt Whisky Society tasting notes describe more than any one person should be able to pick up. That said, the SMWS uses a tasting panel to decide on their whiskies, and it is completely believable that a group of whisky tasters will put together all of those flavors and smells. They probably have a marketing person write the filler words that get you from one flavor descriptor to the next, but you shouldn't doubt that someone in the room said they smelled that oil smoke from a two-stroke engine.

Agreed. I just find it ridiculous when I read descriptors like "wet pavement". How the hell does anyone know what wet pavement tastes like? Did they go outside and lick the road? Or, "dried seaweed with a touch of model airplane glue". Really? And one of my all time favorites............. an "old leather chair". Who licks a damn chair to know how it tastes? Just sayin'.

[Josh]

And one of my all time favorites............. an "old leather chair". Who licks a damn chair to know how it tastes? Just sayin'.

It would depend on who had sat there.

[ebo]

It would depend on who had sat there.

I got nothin'.

[steeltownbbq]

These notes work for me:

1. F*^&ing awesome!
2. Damn good
3. OK
4. Tastes like S#!t

any more is BS