hello malty munchers on malt mouthfuls i'm ralphie welcome to the bothy welcome to
ralphie review 935 and a big thank you for the mop mention to falsgraf i have a single malt
for you this is what i'm going to be reviewing today because single mocks tend to be my favorite
that's better
you've probably noticed
but um
i've had a cold so my senses aren't at their best but never mind i do have my notes here
which i'll be referring to as required because this is the benefit of opening up a whiskey
weeks if not months before reviewing it and spending quite a bit of time with it this is quite
quite important actually because many people in in reviewing spirits and particularly if
they're judging at competitions they really don't have a lot of time and you can learn a
lot for about a whiskey in a short space of time but to really get to the bottom of it
it needs some time so take all the time you feel you need when you're drinking your whiskey
you're paying a premium for the smell and taste so you may as well get the benefit of that
anyway without further ado mchrimur which is basically it's isle of aaron
single malt but this is the peated version and what you get is slightly toasty distinctive
peatiness it's kind of toasty firesidey slightly maritime so a little bit of saltiness in the nose
quite rich vanilla notes barley sugar notes which you would expect from first fill
x bourbon casks which is the case here and it is by the way non-shell filtered and natural color 46
and uh basically quite transparent and a nice little tidy integrity bottle of whiskey
if you're looking for a permutation of laphroaig or one of the other
isle of stalwarts you may be disappointed but if however you are looking for an alternative
to the increasing hype around our bag you will find this to be quite a refreshing change taste
big rich arrival barley sugar
stewed fruit some banana in there spices good complex a rare spice
when you add a little bit of water
and in this instance i am adding uh four milliliters of water i could have been the
three it could have been five that's what i added whatever you add it's entirely up to yourself
um is there any information in the back that uh it's worth sharing with you let's have a look see
there we go on the west coast of isle of eden swin swept and mystical ego mystical speak bogs
um bronze age stone circles and standing stones
strewn there we go that's a whole different conversation it's really really interesting
what archaeologists are discovering
around the planet in terms of of ancient stone structures uh without getting too far away
from the whiskey it's just something that's fascinating me at the moment
is the whole new level of awareness discovery and disclosure of ancient monuments and further
explanations as to their meaning but in the meantime how are we getting on with this
this isle of iron painted they call it machrimur um named after the big peat bog with stone circles
in it but it's quite a homogenized experience and the difficulty is that when you take
a good solid identity such as aaron single malt you can't automatically presume
that as soon as you use the painted barley instead of the unpainted barley that you're
going to get spectacular results in the same context and you find that it tends to be dry
character single malts which deliver the pitiness much more dramatically and much
more delicately here the peatiness is it's been brought into the malt itself and it just becomes
it becomes um an interesting permutation of isle of iron but it's certainly not better
it's certainly not outstanding by a long chalk but some you know you're going to enjoy it if if you
just like generalized painted whiskies a word of advice is really give it time in the glass because
the results are really quite sweet so you have a sweet painted whiskey which isn't immediately
visible as such you've got to give it time so this is something where you you after a few glasses
to familiar familiarize yourself to the signature of the smell and taste you're going to warm to it
it it lacks significant complexity but it's a decent good quality single malt
and over time you'll discover more character to it not dynamic in flavor but you'll discover more
character in particular it comes into its own when you've left the glass a while
with a drop of water and it becomes this really sweet peat almost a dessert painted whiskey
and this is think something i think some some reviewers failed to pick up on
yeah covered that come in that
so what will i get for a month mark for my creamer
i'm going to give this 19 84 out of 100 it's a mock mark mod mates it's an integrity mock mark
and that is my review now if you pop back for my extras 935 extras i shall be just plucking an old
bottle of whiskey out of my stash and telling you all about it we'll see you soon bye