Why does Japan have many of these membership to access bottlings?

Nose: peaches, gasoline, peach perfume, light stale pear juice.

Palate: light body, smooth, initial palate is a little sharp, mid palate has bread crumbs, steamed stone fruit residue, apple and pear juice, malt, sesame, bread, back palate is a lighter version of the mid palate but I detect some light smoke. Water makes the smoke come out, or is it pastry?

Finish: apple and pear juice, soaked bread.

Pretty plain, nothing too special, does present malt and light pear juice, so different from what I expected. Water made it so much better. I expected more from Whisky Hoop.

Image courtesy of Eric Yee.

Eric Yee

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