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Paul John Bold

Indian Single Malt Goa
Age
No age statement
ABV
46%
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Warm amber-gold; slightly deeper colour than Edited from the higher proportion of peated malt
Nose
Peat-forward — sharp, vegetal peat, thick toffee sweetness, plenty of spice. Aniseed, black pepper, honey. The boldest expression of Indian peat. Campfire and tropical heat in one glass
Palate
Medium-full body. Spicy and peaty — dry, spicy peat, black pepper, honey sweetness. Bold Indian peat character unlike Scottish peat — more vegetal and spicy. Thick toffee and aniseed beneath the smoke. Assertive and characterful
Finish
Medium-long finish. Dry peat becoming oily and savoury. Black pepper, honey, smoke persist. A distinctly Indian interpretation of heavily peated whisky — neither Islay nor Highland peat, but something unique to Goa

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Ex-bourbon barrels — heavily peated Indian single malt
  • non-chill filtered

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