Miodula Presidential Blend (40%, Mundivic, Oak Barrel, C#256, b#268): just as well there is January, to try the odds and wonders that make their way to tOMoH's during the rest of the year! Nose: very unusual, for this whisky drinker. This smells creamy as warm whole milk served in a pine-tree forest. And, no, it is nothing like a Benrinnes. It is mellow and tame, plays few notes, and plays them softly, yet insistently. Milk-chocolate pudding, pine-sap-infused toffee, heavy cream, sour cream topped with cocoa powder. Tilting the glass allows hazelnut cream to flow too. The second nose is very much aligned. Sweet chocolate custard, toffee, pine-scented caramel, then profiteroles, boules de Berlin (Krapfen, auf Deutsch), doughnut, breakfast merendine... It is really a number for the sweet teeth of the world! Mouth: ooft! Sweet-and-a-half. This is akin to biting into a chocolate éclair, with chou dough, custard and a chocolate glaze, yet it is a chocolate custard, not merely vanilla (yes, those double-chocolate éclairs do exist). It takes quite a lot of chewing to revive the pine influence, cedar or Douglas-fir needles, and a ladleful of toffee that has not yet set. Creamy texture, almost buttery, and delicious taste, to put it simply. The second sip takes us closer to liqueur pralines, with milk chocolate and sweet pine liqueur (génépi?) However, unlike the pralines in question (Edle Tropfen, for example), this is never sickly: the sweetness is restrained, and the alcohol is too faint to bother. Finish: with such a low ABV and those chocolate and toffee flavours, this Miodula may well topple Littlemill for the coveted title of breakfast dram. It is pretty close to toffee-flavoured cereals splashed with chocolate-flavoured oat milk. The second gulp is reminiscent of whisky liqueur (Arran Gold, for example, or the one whose name starts with 'B'), though, again, it does not reach the sickly levels those liqueurs have. It stays pleasant throughout, with milk chocolate, hazelnut paste, and melted toffee. To be clear, this is neither complex, nor challenging, nor actually that interesting; it is simply delicious nonetheless, and dangerously quaffable! 7/10 (Thanks, MK)
Happy birthday, NH.
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