The Drunken Master is a whisky bar in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, while The Bow Bar is the one in Hokkaido, Japan, not the UK. These Drunken Master bottlings are usually quite good, but hard to find outside of Asia.

Nose: fruits, mostly cherries and mulberries, light wood, light smoked wood notes in there. Wow so very different for a Littlemill.

Palate: medium body, oily, spicy, initially a little dry, initial palate is spicy, light fruits, mid palate is fruity, but shows hints of stone fruits, generally a fruity sweetness with varying degrees of cooking spices and spiciness, does show hints of herbal tea though, back palate had a flux of peaches, wax, subsides quite quickly to the normal mid palate flavor set.

Finish: short to medium, a waxy peach and fruit juice, oily.

Overall very nice. The spice seems to dictate everything on this one for some reason for example the ability to taste stone fruits or general fruit based on phase... sense the spice level first and then accompanying flavors follow. The back palate has that surprising peach attack, but everything else is pretty standard stuff.

Image courtesy of Eric Yee.

Eric Yee

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