One fine evening in Mumbai our tasting group settled down to sample a trio… completely blind followed by the reveal. We closed with a dram from Ireland.
Powers 12 year John’s Lane Release 46%
- Nose – Distinctly different, pot still, chocolate, hazelnut, milky, bit of varnish, oily, green and spic, tumeric, cinnamon, organic. Opened up and took on a forest quality – particularly spruce wood, green apple, some cumin, bay leaf, a bit of floral like rose essence…. After a long time came back and it was pure candy sweet!
- Palate – Quite tasty and with spice! Pineapple, more of that gulab jaman with rose essence, while it certainly wasn’t completely, was quite sociable with a happy easy style
- Finish – Butter, spice, not long but nice
- Water – Absolutely no need
Our speculations?
One immediately identified it as Irish pot still. Talk turned to Bushmill Black, Powers.. we all found it to bhquite
And the reveal?
Guess what? Powers! It was a nice amiable ending to our evening.
Here’s what the folks at Powers have to say:
Powers John’s Lane Release is a Single Pot Still whiskey that celebrates the origin of the Powers Whiskey tradition and provides a glimpse of the whiskey style that made Powers famous. The distillate has been matured for no less than 12 years, mainly in American Oak casks with a small inclusion of Iberian Oak for balance and complexity and then married to create the distinctive honey and spice flavor of Powers.
- Nose: An abundance of earthy aromas, leather, tobacco with layers of charred wood, dark chocolate and treacle toffee.
- Taste: Full bodied spice front followed by vanilla, honey and dried apricot.
- Finish: Lingering honey sweetness on toasted oak.
What else did we sample that evening?
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