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Kaleva
7
8
15
8.7
August 23, 2019
Nose
Fresh, sweet, fruity (overripe plums and pears, apricots, some tropical fruits, eg. pineapples), a hint of chalk, wood polish, vanilla, citruses, herbs, menthol notes, some wood
Palate
Sweet, quite spicy (mostly ginger), fruit bubble gum, red orchard berries, lemon curd dessert, eucalyptus, light minerality, bitter oak at the end
Finish
Short, slightly sweet and fruity (peachy) with some herbal notes, a bit grassy, with a hint of oak
Conclusion
Pleasant whiskey, balanced and tasty but it doesn’t make the “wow” impression, which you suppose to get seeing word “mizunara” on the label. I didn’t have any previous experience with mizunara finish/maturation but I hardly can see here something really unusual. Maybe the reason is that specific mizunara-induced profile requires long (15+ years) maturation, which is naturally impossible to obtain during even long finishing. But once more: this is a nice whiskey, which worth its every cent