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McCARTHYS Oregon Single Malt
Clear Creek Distillery in Portland Oregon, Pot Distilled Whiskey
Distilled from a Ferment Mash of Peat-Malted Scottish Barley.
Barrel aged 3 years.
ALC 42.5% (85 Proof)
Himself's Take (done for the first time in a structured fashion)
COLOUR
- Very Pale Gold
NOSE
- Mild with soft peat, pleasing suggestion of non-cloyingly sweetness
BODY
- slow opening, medium body, slightly oily, hint of alcohol
PALATE
- Soothing mild peatyness , oaky wood notes, kind of a mystic Lord of the Rings flavours that change as you think you've deciphered them.
FINISH
- Long and surprisingly easy on the inhale with those mystic flavours riding steadily on
SCORE - upper 80s, say 89
On Sep 2nd I wrote the following:
While in Baltimore yesterday - 1 Sept '12 - I purchased a single malt distilled in Oregon state. So it's whiskey with an 'e' and the word Scotch conspicuously missing on the label. However it is a decent member of the malt whiskey set, Scotch or no. To wit: McCarthys Oregon Single Malt, a pot distilled whiskey by Clear Creek Distillery. These words I'm posting today are really just a warm-up of a more in depth review as I was exhausted when I sampled a wee dram late last night. It was decent enough though to me seeming a bit 'thin' in the opening taste and then coming through with mildly pleasant peat flavour and other little flavours that I will have to dwell on tonight. At the present I will simply say neither bland nor overwhelming and pleasing flavours that finish well. More later on this. Promise!!
While in Baltimore yesterday - 1 Sept '12 - I purchased a single malt distilled in Oregon state. So it's whiskey with an 'e' and the word Scotch conspicuously missing on the label. However it is a decent member of the malt whiskey set, Scotch or no. To wit: McCarthys Oregon Single Malt, a pot distilled whiskey by Clear Creek Distillery. These words I'm posting today are really just a warm-up of a more in depth review as I was exhausted when I sampled a wee dram late last night. It was decent enough though to me seeming a bit 'thin' in the opening taste and then coming through with mildly pleasant peat flavour and other little flavours that I will have to dwell on tonight. At the present I will simply say neither bland nor overwhelming and pleasing flavours that finish well. More later on this. Promise!!
I've
since sampled a few pleasing 'wee drams' and enjoyed them all - but
found it hard to describe this American WhiskEy. On reading a number of
reviews I find that it is an extremely well reviewed whiskey - named
one of the ten best American Whiskeys and receiving a score of 96 from
Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible. But the theme that was common to them all
is that for a whiskey aged for only 3 years this was an unbelievably
well crafted and well and truly aged single malt. Once you get past the
strange tasting comments that reviewers seem compelled to mention
(pine-sol??, butterieness, etc.) you will see that all are in agreement
that this is a fine Single Malt.
Me too!!
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