{"id":6223,"date":"2011-11-30T21:35:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T11:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2014-04-26T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T06:36:42","slug":"small-cask-aged-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6223","title":{"rendered":"Small Cask Aged Lark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>DISTILLERY <\/strong>Lark<\/p>\n

TYPE<\/strong>\u00a0Single Malt<\/p>\n

ALCOHOL\u00a0<\/strong>43%<\/p>\n

REGION <\/strong>Tasmania
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COLOR <\/strong>Amber<\/p>\n

NOSE <\/strong>…feint whiff of freshly cut grass.\u00a0 I’m sticking my whole nose in the tumbler to get it though.<\/p>\n

PALATE <\/strong>Very peaty.\u00a0 Aside from the smoke, there’s pepper, aniseed and citrus.<\/p>\n

FINISH <\/strong>Rather potent aftetaste that leaves behind acidity and aniseed.<\/p>\n

SCORE<\/strong><\/p>\n

60 out of 100<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

NOTES\u00a0<\/strong>I’ve been wanting to try an Australian whisky since I first read about them in Michael Jackson’s whisky guide.\u00a0 He reviewed a Baker’s Hill whisky and scored it in the mid-sixty range.\u00a0 Trying out this cask-aged Lark, I’m giving it a similar score.\u00a0 On paper, Tasmania has a comparable climate and environment to parts of Scotland which suggests that it would be an ideal part of the world to distill whisky.\u00a0 While its a nice idea that some industrious Aussies have come up with a world beating whisky, it’s not quite the case here.\u00a0 You can taste the relative immaturity of this whisky.\u00a0 It’s a bit too overbearing for me.\u00a0 It doesn’t have a particularly strong nose and while there are some interesting flavours in the palette, they are drowned out by the peatiness and the aniseed flavour.<\/p>\n

I’m happy to have the bottle in my collection though and hopefully in the years to come, Australian distilleries continue to improve upon their craft and produce better and more refined drams.<\/p>\n

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