John G.

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Bio:

Regular contributor to Malt Review. WSET Spirits Level 2 Enthusiastic about all spirits but for vodka. Whisky is my 1st love but I'm currently enjoying my affair with rum, brandy and Mezcal.

Interesting but not great

66 /100

Color: 1st steep green tea.

On the nose: There’s immediately an intense scent of classic Cognac hogo. It smells like a mix of pu-erh tea, truffles, shiitake mushrooms and orange peel. After these dissipate, I get medium intensity notes of peppers, cloves, oyster shells and basil. Then there are some light and quick scents of marzipan, dried apricots, mochis and mint.

In the mouth: More pepperiness upfront and lasts the whole way. But the hogo is less intense and not as lasting. There are still some medium tastes of orange peel, marzipan, dried apricots and mochi but they don’t last long as well. In between those, I taste hints of more dried apricots, dried figs, prunes and lemon peel. I find this to be more enjoyable after I swallow as I taste more light but identifiable notes such as stewed apples, more dried apricots, yellow bell peppers, honey, dried figs and marzipan.

Conclusions
There’s not much to say. This is inoffensive yet a struggle to enjoy. The flavors seem muted or too stretched out. The flavors I get aren’t coherent. It’s like being able to identify one flavor in one second then blank pepperiness the next. Then another flavor. The pepperiness is a bit strong despite the abv but I think that bite is just from the worm tub distillation in Cognac. It’s hard to tell which is the Borderies influence and which is the Mizunara influence. Maybe the long peppery note is the incense mixed with sandalwood? Hard to tell.