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#BlindDrams 5: World's most consistent whisky distillery - so anything less than a 3 means the whisky maker/bottler has fucked up. They haven't here - 3 scored

#BlindDrams 5 Taste: Totally Caol Ila with the triptych of medicine, lemon and minerality. Some milky coffee and digestive biscuits alongside preserved lemon, chiselled granite and billowing coastal smokiness. Sound...as it always is.

#BlindDrams 5 Nose: Full peat now. Medicinal - surface cleaner and calamine lotion. Some smokehouse barbeque ribs, burnt toffee, lemon balm and damp barnyard hay

#BlindDrams 4 Pin-point balance here. Excellent. Scores a 4.

#BlindDrams 4 Taste: Perfect balance of sweet and peat. Lemon meringue pie, crisp and sour green apple...all enveloped with a combination of vegetal/coastal peat. Edges of salinity and minerality at the back palate - really sits well with the overarching sweetness.

#BlindDrams 4 Nose: Ethereal peat wraps around green apples and wet leaves. Quite appropriately autumnal. Touches of burnt pastry cases and orange liqueurs, alongside a delicate meaty character.

#BlindDrams 3. Liked it - right until the end. But true to form - big extracted dry tannins are never going to be my thing. Score a 2.

#BlindDrams 3 Taste: Nice weight throughout the mouth. Sweet and fresh, lively fruits - redcurrants and blackberries. But quite grippy after....the syrupy fruits giving way to the cask for some moisture-sucking, rather rigid tannins.

#BlindDrams 3 Nose: Pleasant and interesting. Gingerbread men and a touch of sharp and crisp cider. Strawberry boot laces, touches of slapped mint leaves and wire wool.

#BlindDrams 2 - No great shakes eitherway. Tis totally fine for me....scores a 2.

#BlindDrams 2 Taste: Good mouthcoating arrival. Active cask here - charry and spicy - together with spirit character of red berries, crisp apples, powdered lemon bonbons and pink wafer biscuits. Pokey stuff.

#BlindDrams 2 Nose: Plenty of baking spices and stewed orchard fruits - fresh and appealing. Rather perfumed with it - rose petals and potpourri together with some maltloaf

#BlindDrams 1 - no qualms at all for me. Solid. Scores 3

#BlindDrams 1 Taste: Few overexpressed acetates here - so this has likely had some time in cask to clean up. Nevertheless, more oomph than the nose might have suggested - peppery toffee, caramel chews, plenty of cask char. Tangy fruits a good dose of polished oakiness

#BlindDrams 1 Nose: Pleasant grain whisky incoming. Desiccated coconut, toffee cups, popcorn. split vanilla pod, super gentle white pepper and some well-worn oakiness. Super appealing for grain-heads no doubt.

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#BlindDrams 5 Scores a 4. Lots going on here - and all in-check with it too. Noice. Sounds like Avril Lavigne - Complicated

#BlindDrams 5 Taste: Broad and expressive. Salted caramel, millionaire's shortbread, rose hips and Turkish Delight. Charry smoke and cinder toffee together with tart stewed red and dark berries.

#BlindDrams 5 Nose: Highly expressive. Polished teak furniture, rose petals, scorched creme caramel and candied orange peels. Salted caramel, sticky toffee pudding and fine cigars. Deep cask influence - rather dechar/rechar in character.

#BlindDrams 4 Scores a 1. Whilst well-known for my general enmity of wine casks, I'm also sadly not a fan of gristy profiles. Sounds like jazz instructor Terence Fletcher saying "Not my tempo"

#BlindDrams 4 Taste: Juniper vs barley. Unusual. And a bit gristy with it. Dried reed and flax, touches of burnt leaves, pine cones and twigs leading into sweet mentholated oakiness.

#BlindDrams 4 Nose: Burnt juniper, orange peels and jellies. Edges of potpourri herbalness. In time, pineapple juice and freshly cut hay. Interesting.

#BlindDrams 3 Scores a 3. Perhaps it's not quite the weather for it - but everything here sits well within my usual penchants. Sounds like The Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors

#BlindDrams 3 Taste: Sweetness first - almost agave like - green, underripe orchard fruits and fruit gels. Then, a wispy, but enveloping light-touch smokiness - dry and papery, with edges of medicinalness - well-judged to sit with the sweeter elements

#BlindDrams 3 Nose: Licks of germolene and surface cleaner sit with week-old cinders whilst lemon balm, lemon posset and meringue offer a welcome sweeter/creamier character alongside firepit toasted marshmallow.

#BlindDrams 2 Scores a 3. Taking no prisoners with the intensity here. Sounds like Shaggy - Mr Boombastic.

#BlindDrams 2 Taste: Bolder now - white pepper, cinnamon fireball heat. Crackerbread and pastry alongside apple peels and some creamier toffee. Impactful stuff - not messing

#BlindDrams 2 Nose: Earthiness - damp soil and mulch, musty cellars - all lifted by green fruits and golden barley. Coffee grounds join the party alongside cacao nibs.

#BlindDrams 1 Scores a 3. Hot and spicy but easily tempered with reduction. Sounds like a Spice Girls reunion

#BlindDrams 1 Taste: Gooseberry tartness alongside sour apples and flapjack cereals. Building cask pepperiness leads into palpable chilli bite and elements of cooling mintiness. Hot and spicy. Bit too much. Water a boon here - takes the heat out and doesn't overexpress the active wood in play.

#BlindDrams 1 Nose: Crunchy barley sugar, cooking apple, white jelly babies, sherbet fountain (with the liquorice stick), tart cases with singed pastry

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#BlindDrams - a notably good showing - barring the sojourn for the unneccessary pervertery - 3,1,3,3,4

#BlindDrams 5 - completely solid - and of course, entirely my tempo - scores 4.

#BlindDrams 5 Taste: Solid minerality - hewn granite and salt alongside soft toffee, berries, apples and edges of lemon peel together with spent coffee beans. A peated crowd-pleaser and archetypally Caol Ila.

#BlindDrams 5 Nose: Hoorah. An appropriate conclusion. Sweet peat - smoked cherries and berries, apple pie around a campfire, touches of light medicinalness and lemon meringue - part dainty, part filthy....ideal.

#BlindDrams 4 - part dessert treat, part brooding sherry bomb. Certainly has some corn-centric flavour as others have noted - could be USA-based. Scores a 3

#BlindDrams 4 Taste: Deep polished oak, vanilla, char and toffee give way to chocolate nuttiness, leafy sherry wine, cellars and rancio

#BlindDrams 4 Nose: Bombs away. Baked plums, chocolate pecans, tart cases and plenty of lacquered wood flooring. Burnt toffee, dedicated coconut, sweet popcorn and stewed fruit compote.

#BlindDrams 3 - The colour initially worried me - but this more than stands up beyond silly preconceptions. Pleasingly balanced sweet whisky - scores an easy 3

#BlindDrams 3 Taste: Sweet throughout. Stewed red berries, ginger beer, foam prawns and cherry cordial. Batternberg cake, crumbly digestives and super controlled cask space bring up the rear. Digging it.

#BlindDrams 3 Nose: Strawberry bootlaces, Nesquik powder, bourbon biscuits and DibDabs. Pink in colour, pink in flavour. Spread jam, berry compote and with some sweet, candied herbaness. Feeling like a rather pleasant port cask here. Much happier ;)

#BlindDrams 2 - Wine + Matt = an invariable nope. Score a 1

#BlindDrams 2 Taste: Much more cask now. And we’re *deep* into wine cask pervertery. <dirty look> Milk chocolate covered berry fruit gives way to intense dryness and grippy tannins together with balsamic acidity, cardboard and some muddy back palate flavours. No!

#BlindDrams 2 Nose: Golden syrup, honey spread over toast and freshly-made pancakes. Edges of red fruits - raspberries and strawberries, with some agave-like vegetalness and Golden Graham biscuits. Certainly wine cask territory -but how much perversion are we going to end up with?! <shudder>