Six Dornoch single casks

Dornoch 6 yo 2018/2024 (50.2%, OB, cask #67, 1st fill bourbon octave, 77 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: syrupy inexperienced and unique fruits with a nibble of wooden spice behind. Inexperienced pepper, sandalwood, pulped pineapple and mango juice. This one looks like a really cautious stability between the fruitiness of the distillate and the plain energy of that tiny cask. With water: a pina colada, actually dominated by coconut water, fruit pulp and hints of scorching local weather rums. Mouth: a properly concentrated really feel upon arrival, with tropical fruit juices and teas main the cost. Though, you do get a bit extra assertion from the wooden right here, with extra inexperienced pepper, wooden spice, cedar and sandalwood notes. Extra impressions of pineapple juice and a few greener hints of crushed nettle. Makes me assume just a little of some excellent Inchmurrin. With water: extra peppery warmth and energy from the wooden, however the basic fruity construction nonetheless holds true. End: medium, on white pepper, fruit salad chewy sweets and sunflower oil. Feedback: I might say stability has nearly been struck. On one had it reveals the beautifully concentrative energy of those wee bourbon casks, however on the opposite, they’ve a brief lifespan. 
SGP: 651 – 86 factors.

Dornoch 6 yo 2017/2024 (55.2%, OB, cask #22, 1st fill bourbon octave, 69 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: leaner, greener and grassier. Extra on cooking oils, crushed inexperienced herbs, grasses, nettles, lime leaf, lemongrass and hints of ginger – would make a great Darkish N Stormy cocktail! With water: peaches and cream with some pink marshmallow, gorse flower, sandalwood and rapeseed oil. Mouth: this one additionally has fairly a little bit of American oak coconutty vibes up entrance, additionally some hints of latest leather-based sneakers, condensed milk, mineral oils, tinned peaches and fruit salad juices. Once more, fairly spicy and peppery. With water: some type of spiced limoncello, with tiny hints of fruity pink chili, extra cedar wooden notes, lanolin, cooking oils and lemon oil. End: slightly lengthy, with some extra unique notes coming by, together with hashish resin and pineapple jellybeans. Feedback: they’re a whole lot of enjoyable these younger Dornoch single casks, you simply should be within the temper to get your chops round a little bit of wooden spice.
 SGP: 651 – 87 factors.

Dornoch 6 yo 2018/2024 (55.8%, OB, cask #82, bourbon octave, 80 bottles)
Color: deep gold. Nostril: banana chips, natural teas with honey, fruity muesli, crushed nettles, mango chunks, extra hashish resin and a properly fragrant waxiness rising. With water: lemon verbena, scorching home flowers, vapour rub and tea tree oil. Mouth: one other very syrupy and spicy one, however I discover right here that the fruitiness retains tempo a bit extra, it’s additionally obtained an much more pronounced grassy and olive oil vibe. Crushed nettles, cider apple, mint, jasmine flower and spicy, unique fruit teas. With water: juicy fruit chewing gum, lemon curd, fruit salad juices and cooking oils. End: lengthy, fairly fruity, even a bit estery with some inexperienced banana within the aftertaste. Feedback: I benefit from the distillate character that appears to dominate just a little extra assertively right here. Was it a refill octave? 
SGP: 641 – 88 factors. 

Dornoch 6 yo 2018/2024 (56.3%, OB, cask #94, 1st fill bourbon octave, 93 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: resinous fir woods, menthol traits, rolling tobacco, even toothpaste. This one is off to a barely extra unlikely begin. There’s additionally some foam banana sweets and even a little bit of banoffee pie. With water: caraway, coconut shavings, floor ginger, nutmeg and baked plantain. Mouth: coconut cream, retsina, inexperienced peppercorns, banana liqueur, some slightly sturdy mead and candy cider. It’s a bit dominated by the wooden for me, I’m afraid. With water: café latte, stout ale, pumpernickel bread and flambeed banana. End: fairly lengthy and really spicy. You undoubtedly really feel the wooden closing in. Feedback: a great instance of what occurs when these wee casks prepare dinner the whisky a tad too intensely. 
SGP: 561 – 84 factors.

Dornoch 7 yo 2017/2024 (56%, OB, cask #38, 1st fill bourbon octave, 74 bottles)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: one other tenser and sharper one, instantly fairly refreshing after the earlier one in that it’s rather more about minimize grass, olive oil, lemon rind, bay leaf, crushed nettles, gooseberry and lime. Additionally a chic and recent herbaceous high quality emerges with just a little time. With water: lemongrass, wool, peppery watercress, juniper and trace of pineapple. A way more uncommon profile than the others, however I like this extra distillate-driven and sharp profile. Mouth: slightly citric, sharp and even with fairly a little bit of acidity. Once more, very tense and exact in profile, even perhaps barely austere. A bit chalky, some lemon juice, wool, dry waxy notes, mineral oils and, with time, some underlying inexperienced and yellow fruits emerge. With water: grassy, oily, drying, waxy and mineral. A extra classical old style profile lastly emerges and brings a higher sense of coherence. End: lengthy, mineral, even barely salty, with olive oil, grass, petrol and wax. Feedback: complicated, grown-up whisky for distillate geeks! Clearly, that features me. 
SGP: 461 – 88 factors.

Dornoch 5 yo 2019/2024 (60.7%, OB for The WhiskyFind tenth Anniversary, cask #160, ex-Islay quarter cask, 164 bottles)
Presumably an ex-Laphroaig quarter. Color: deep orangey gold. Nostril: It’s a great job we saved this one until final, the peat comes by loud and clear, however with some Dornoch fruit character at play as properly. Sandalwood shaving foam, tangerines, charred pineapple rings, barely sooty and waxy notes, bonfire embers and unlit cigars. With water: fragrant wooden smoke, anchovies in brine, miso paste, smoked olive oil, a bit extra complicated and settled now I might say. Mouth: actually fairly peaty, large wooden spice notes, scorching BBQ sauce, TCP and black olive tapenade. Additionally, a whole lot of tar, previous rope, hessian and malt vinegar. With water: nonetheless a large dram, very salty, umami and with a dense, thick, barely ashy smokiness. End: lengthy, tarry, dry and stuffed with uncooked peat and bonfire smoke. Feedback: Dorphroaig? The peat has actually dominated right here and produced an immensely potent, barely monolithic wee dram. A kind of intelligent and really enjoyable whiskies that will lead you endlessly in circles if tasted blind. 
SGP: 466 – 86 factors.