We’ve had a few brushes with Goa’s answer to the world whisky challenge… The Whisky Ladies were smacking our collective lips with the yummy bacon in the Paul John Peated Select Cask….
However there is a Single Cask avatar of the Paul John Peated too tempting to resist…
- Nose – Sour curd yet also honey caramel like breakfast muesli, peaty bacon, grilled prawns, campfire smoke, then chocolate orange, musty rancio element, as it airs light rose, dry supari
- Taste – Very smooth, not in the least sharp, lots of body, as much going on in the palate as nose, toasted almonds, green applesauce
- Finish – Long finish, burnt charcoal that mellows into apple sauce then grapes
- Water – Fabulous! Adds more to the nose enhancing the supari and boiled rice
Comments:
- “I feel like frolicking around the campfire!”
- “Smells like stinky brie but tastes delicious”
- “It is a voluptuous woman with attitude”
Overall, all that promise and bursting character in the Select Cask? Even better in the Single Cask. Wonderfully balanced, lots of body, it opens beautifully with a small splash of water. More importantly, it has a distinctive ‘Indian’ quality.
What do the folks at Paul John have to say?
Open your taste buds to the burst of a blood orange and kumquat blast, with an undertone of marmalade, framed by the soft, but confident and compelling peat reek. The profound contrast continues: the mouth watering maltiness plays hide and seek with darker, drier, smoky undertones and the myriad shoes and subtleties of smoked cocoa butter… Quite a handful of attitude in one bottle, this is for serious whisky drinkers.
Other Paul John whisky experiences:
- Bold Single Malt 46%
- Brilliance Single Malt 46%
- Classic Select Cask 55.2%
- Edited Single Malt 46% – 1st bottle, 2nd bottle
- Peated Select Cask 55.5% + Cabinet experience
- Distillery Tour (Guest Post by Paula McGlynn)
- Whisky Ladies go Goan
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