(21)Colour: pale gold. Nose: a typical fruitiness at first sniff (bananas) but also something quite bizarrely milky and buttery. Gets then very herbal (chives) and a little minty. Hints of iron (OBE developing), aniseed and mint. A little shy in fact, getting a little papery and still quite minty. Waning quite quickly, alas. Mouth: too bad, the papery and cardboardy notes do really dominate the whole now. A little weak, dry, strangely vegetal (over-infused tea), with also something like capers or gherkins… Quite some salt at that, mint, camphor (but an odd one)… The finish is even weirder, quite long but rather bitter…
(18)Colour: amber with bronze hues. Nose: take everything I wrote for the G&M, minus the winey notes, plus old walnuts and camphor. Result: totally brilliant Longmorn. Mouth: All kinds of raisins, nuts, herbs (mint, dill)… Plus quite some liquorice, dried fruits, crystallised ones…
(23)Nose
Earthy sherry, some menthol, raisins, prunes, Karuizawa like, dried fruit, mushroms, old forest
Taste
sweet, spicy, herbs, oak, again japanese like, dried fruit, prunes, leather, there are a lot of different spices and herbs going on here.
Finish
rather long, oaky, herby, slight bitter and again, japanese
