Nikka Pure Malt White

Extremamente iodado, envolvente. Na boca sedoso, sabor a fumo. Final longo.


Tipo: Single Malt
Origem: Yoichi, Nikka, Japão
Características: 43º, 50cl

An extremely peated version and wonderfully luscious. A remarkably well-balanced release from Nikka.

Yellow in colour with gold highlights, and a nose which is peaty, ashy and medicinal as well as marked by notes of coconut, praline and violet. The palate is delicate and rich, gradually revealing a smokiness and vegetal notes before liquorice emerges. The finish is long and marine, and evolves along a theme of flowers, smoked malted barley and cough pastilles. The whole is remarkably balanced.

Crítica:

Color: Gold, slightly orange.
Nose: Wet bark, sawdust, something lightly peated, smoky is a better word for it, some dark orangie sherry notes in the back.
Taste: Liquorice, smoky, quite sweet, burning peat in the back, slowly building up some peppery notes... quite a bitter finale. Where is the promised peat?
Aftertaste: A bitterness best described as "a good try... but this isn't a single malt!" A pure malt in every way. The smoke has gone for a walk and leaves you behind with sweet, soft woody tones of unknown bitterness... How about the Black version?
Score: 70.
Remarks: The nose is much more fun than tasting it. Isn't that the case with most vatted malts?

70/100 por Singlemalteclub

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