#WhiskyAdvent day 1: Glen Elgin 12 Year Old - Batch 5 (49.1%)
Bright and fruity on the nose. More fruit on the palate, very sweet and light and a little bit floral. A great start.

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#WhiskyAdvent day 2: Armorik 7 year, batch 1 (50%)

Malty and maybe a little fruit on the nose?
Fruit comes through on the palate with a nice chocolatey sweetness.

This is delicious!

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WhiskyAdvent Day 3: Islay #3 13 Year Old - Batch 4 (48.6%)

Peat smoke and maybe some salt on the nose? Peppery peat on the palate with a bit of a medicinal tinge. I like it but it’s not my favorite. I normally love me some Islay peat, but this one is a bit one-dimensional.

Just looked it up and it’s a bottling of Laphroaig, I can totally see that.

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Whisky Advent Day 4: MacDuff 12 Year Old - Batch 5 (49.9%)

Light and fruity pear on the nose, but wow, the palate is not the lightweight I expected after sniffing. It comes on strong with more sweet pear combined with a nice spice hit, then that spice just hangs... Pretty good!

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Added a little water to the MacDuff just for curiosity's sake.

It ends up a tad odd; I still get spice but only the high notes, that warm middle kinda disappeared a little, and the pear sweetness dropped back a bit too. Still good, but definitely better without the added water.

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Whisky Advent Day 5: Cambus 27 Year Old - Batch 10 (50.7%)

Vanilla with a cool sweetness on the nose. Sweet honey, more vanilla, and an almost Irish pot still grassiness to it, with just the tiniest bit of spice at the end. Really nice oily mouthfeel.

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Whisky Advent Day 6: Aberlour 9 Year Old - Batch 7 (49.6%)

Extremely light on the nose, just a touch of malt. Thick and sweet with a good amount of spice on the palate. Long lingering finish with a nice burn as it fades.

Not bad, but doesn’t jump out at me either.

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It’s interesting to have this after literally doing a 6-dram Aberlour tasting with Dramfool a few weekends ago. This reminds me a bit of the younger ones we tried in the first part of the tasting — a fine, easy-drinking dram, but doesn’t quite grab me.

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Whisky Advent Day 7: Teaninich 11 Year Old - Batch 2 (47.9%)

Another one that’s light on the nose, with a subtle sweetness. On the palate a nice burn, the sweetness becomes more pear-like. There’s plenty going on here, I’m just not good at picking out these notes apparently. :)

The long tail of flavor gives me a bit of a chocolate/dark caramel finish, it definitely gets more interesting as I let it sit on my tongue.

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Whisky Advent Day 8: Longmorn 10 Year Old - Batch 3 (48.3%)

On the nose, a bit of citrus and pepper. On the palate more of that plus a touch of something I couldn’t place until I looked at some other reviews: mint.

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Whisky Advent Day 9: Balblair 7 Year Old - Batch 1 (49.9%)

Very malty on the nose. Pepper and some kind of bitter note I can’t place on the palate. Not bad, definitely young.

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Whisky Advent Day 10: Heaven Hill Corn Whiskey 9 Year Old - Batch 1 (49.5%)

Sweet and corny on the nose. (Sorry)
Spicy and sweet on the palate, with just a bit of a chocolatey finish.

Water brings forward really strong butteriness, and a lot more fruit.

It’s rare that I like a whisky _with_ water more than without, but I liked this even more with a few drops.

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Whisky Advent Day 11: North British 30 Year Old - Batch 6 (50.1%)

This one’s pretty light on the nose, having a hard time picking anything out.
I’ve seen “banana” in notes before but never really gotten it. This one, however, I taste banana more than anything else, and then a nice bit of spice underneath. Maybe a touch of a furniture polish sort of aftertaste. Water mellows it a bit but doesn’t change too much.

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Reading master of malt’s notes after the fact they say cinnamon and nutmeg for the spice and I can see it.

Both 10 & 11 were good in very different ways.