Colour: Light gold.
Nose: It’s round and mineral. Delicate but very present wood smoke, earthy notes, young yellow fruits, apples, citruses and spices. It’s quite powerful overall!
Mouth: The alcohol is well integrated and the texture is quite oily. A lot of fresh yellow fruits, apples, orange, limes, lemons, wood smoke and hints of vegetal notes too.
Finish: Medium. A lot of fruitiness loved inside this particular and bewitching wood smoke, hints of citruses freshness, lemons and oranges.

That’s a pretty nice starter! It’s very simple but it’s also easy to drink and simple to enjoy!

Score: 87

Colour: Clear water.
Nose: The alcohol is not that much present for 75% ABV, citruses, mentholated freshness, maple syrup, grassy notes, solvants, and juniper of course.
Mouth: The alcohol integration is impressive for that kind of ABV. A burst of juniper, menthol, citruses and white pepper. It’s fresh and spicy with hints of wood and smoke.
Finish: Powerful and quite short, medium at best. Wood smoke, earthy notes, pink peppercorns and juniper.

That’s a very nice surprise, given the ABV I had some fears but the integration is just very very good, nice job as always!

Colour: Cristal clear.
Nose: A lot of deep smoke and then some things in the background as grassy notes, wet straw, tobacco leaves and freshly cut grass
Mouth: The alcohol integration is perfect. Way less smoke, everything is more balanced now. It’s quite evolutive, starting with fresh tobacco leaves, old cigar box and a burst finally cold ashes and earthy notes
Finish: Medium. A lot of ashes and smoke covering everything else.

That’s honestly pretty good if you like profiles full of smoke and ashes.

Colour: Transparent.
Nose: Wayyy less smoke. Citruses, grapefruit, fresh passion fruits, fresh exotic fruits and wet straw.
Mouth: The alcohol integration is good but the texture is very liquid. It’s quite shy and very monolithic. Young and fresh exotic fruits and delicate smoke but that’s it.
Finish: Short. A shy smoke and hints of fruits.

I loved the nose, what a shame that the rest was not in harmony with it.

Colour: Still transparent.
Nose: It’s very powerful. Delicate smoke, hints of grassy note, ripe fruits, ripe exotic fruits. It’s very nice!
Mouth: Another disappointment, it’s very flat flavour-wise and very liquid! No more fruits in there, just some wood dryness, juniper, wood smoke and cold ashes.
Finish: Very short. Wood smoke, ashes and some smoky dryness.

What a disappointment, it has a beautiful nose at least.

Colour: Is it darker?
Nose: Smoked trout, smoked herring, garlic, green olives, seaweed and iodine. Nice one!
Mouth: A lot of brine, smoked herring, sea salt, green olives, seaweed and hints of lime. Very good and original
Finish: Medium. In harmony with the mouth!

That’s a pretty original profile but to be honest it’s very good in my opinion!

Colour: 60% Transparent + 40% transparent is still transparent!
Nose: It’s nearly the same nose than the « Espadín », it’s just a bit rounder.
Mouth: It’s clearly the « Espadín » that dominates the profile here too with just hints of juniper, grassy notes and pink peppercorns added by the other folk.
Finish: Still a rounder « Espadín » finish.

I enhoyed the « Espadín » is just a rounder copy, not worth it for my tasting buds, I still prefered the first one!

Colour: Where is the chicken?
Nose: Can you imagine roasted chicken wrapped in cold ashes and tobacco leaves and watered with some white wine sauce? Well now you put that over a fire and you smell it, here you are, right in our glasses!
Mouth: Holly cow, what the heck is that?! Industrial lemony dish soap with hints of chicken, thyme and tarragon. It’s just awful, like.. really awful!
Finish: In perfect harmony with the mouth and hopefully not super long, but still long!

What a crazy bottle! It was fun to try and as you could see, we laugh a lot!