JAM Trading:
Chivas Regal 12 years Mizunara Special Edition, 700 ml, 40%
氣味: 花蜜,香薰,提子糖,塑膠,青草。
口味: 焦糖,咖啡,糖果,香料,胡椒。
餘蘊: 中等長度,焦木,胡椒。
結語: 氣味香甜清新,一抹香燻增添雅致感,丁點塑膠但不礙事,時間久了出現青草,簡單但不單調。酒體稍薄,偏向焦香,有明顯的香料,末段有辛辣感。中等長度的餘蘊,同樣的焦香和辛辣感。氣味上的甜有點人工化,口味稍單調,餘蘊可以,整體上都算飲得過。至於設想中水楢帶來的日本風味,那一抹的香薰算是吧。CHIVAS REGAL雖則是打著水楢的幌子,但這只是大眾消費市場級別的普羅酒款,可不要和精品級的水楢桶陳威士忌直接比較吧。
Chivas Regal 12 years Mizunara Special Edition, 700 ml, 40%
Note: Nectar,essential oil, grape favor gummy, plastic, grass
Palate: Caramel, coffee, candy, pepper, spicy
Aftertaste: Medium length, roasted wood, pepper
Comments: Fresh and sweet note, refined essential old, little bit plastic but not offensive, grass appearing over time, simple but not dull. Light body, trends to toasty, quite spicy and a bit hot at the end. Medium length aftertaste, still toasty and hot spicy. Somehow artificial sweetness on nose, a bit simple at palate, fair aftertaste, fair in overall performance. Regarding to expected Japan favor brought by mizunara oak, I think it represented by that fragrance oil alike smell. Don’t having unrealistic expectation to this so-called mizunara featured whisky which it is nothing more than a whisky for consumer markets.