Aerstone 10-year-old WG&S Land Cask

The nose is like Laphroaig's, but this is the very first impression, and it is fleeting. Then Talisker comes. Seriously, it's very easy to confuse them blindly. Except that Talisker is more intense. Overall this is a very good whisky. Salt, sea wind, light finished note, sweetish but short aftertaste. Nice whisky, but thin. He would have had more character, degree, density, and it would have been better. But it's very fair quality for the money.

Smoke and sweet. Really nice for price

meh...

Entry level, very simple, faceless, smoky whisky. There are a lot of similar releases, only almost all of them without age. In my opinion, this sample lacks fortress, but overall it is quite tasty. They say about such people - “a strong middle peasant”.

I haven't had many different whiskys yet but this was one of the better ones so far.

The glass smells nice of peat, the aroma is light and pleasant. After the first drink, I felt an earthy taste with pleasantly rising peat. On Wednesday, I felt the reverberation of peat. In the end, there is again a pleasant taste of peat, nothing intense but pleasantly soft.

I've given this whisky countless chances, but even considering its price, being permissive and trying to find the silver lining, I don't like it. I don't mean to be an elitist, those who know me know that I don't hide: I tend to like cheap whiskys more, simply because they are more accessible. I'd rather try 10 affordable whiskys than 2 exclusive whiskys, and I'm more satisfied to find a very good cheap whisky than an exceptional expensive whisky. This is not the case: it is the typical cheap whisky of very low quality, and not very interesting. The last time I tried it, I took it to a tasting with friends who didn't know it, nor did they know its price or its (bad) reputation. Virtually a blind tasting. We tried about 6 whiskys, 2 of them smoked, and none of my friends liked this Aerstone, neither those who had never tried a smoked whisky before, nor those who already had some experience, and some of us discarded what we had left in the cup due to how uninteresting it is, to make room for other more interesting malts. It offers very little in terms of aroma and flavor, it is too simple and basic, and what it does offer is of poor quality, even somewhat unpleasant. The worst of the two Aerstone by far. You're not going to get anyone into smoky whisky if you offer them this as an introductory whisky (IMHO). After many chances, I'm afraid I have to conclude that I definitely don't like this whisky at all. It is not useful in any sense, even in a tasting, as a filler between other whiskys. Maybe it's good to mix with Coke or something like that, but I don't drink Cubatas and nobody I know does. Laprhoaig Select is only a few euros more expensive, but incomparably better, so this Aerstone simply cannot compete even with its direct competitors in terms of price and organoleptic profile. I'll give away the bottle as soon as I get the chance.

Note: this was sampled blind. Not great. Drinkable, but only just. The kind of thing where if I had a bottle, I’d mostly use it for cocktails. Just not worth drinking neat.

Its pretty alright, not bad, bot not extremely good. You indeed can taste the rich and smokey taste it is trying to convey. It is less trying to add different flavors, it mainly wants you to taste the barrels it set in for years

easy style smokey whisky. easy quaffable!

Smoked malt. Sweet, malty, much smoked, lacking in firmness

Nice simple malt, no great complexity but easy to drinkl

Smoky, good taste for a nice price!

Bah

Don't trust the haters. This can be your first peated single malt experience for such a low price. Sure, its probably entirely from 10 year old casks without anything older to give it more aroma, but trust me, that medicinal peaty smell is enough.

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The sour smoke of a room smoked in wet weather. The taste is sweet and sour. The aftertaste is short.

7/10

When WG starts releasing a single malt in GS, you have to go and see! nose: fine peat, a little dry, vanilla and a little cooked lemon, a little spices too a floral side in return mouth: the peat present, but not very strong, intense smoke is grafted on it, fruits on undifferentiated yellow fruits, simple, creamy, easy for an Islay rite or for a starter for a variation because it is nice , but monolithic, almost watery in the mouth in fact final: spicy, peppery, peaty again finally, velvety and vanilla, lemon with a little cream that hides the acidity! bitterness spoils the finale of this light dram. for the price, don't hide your face, you are dealing with a real Islay from elsewhere who wins the pawn with a lot of whiskys from elsewhere.

Simple and smoky whisky for a reasonable price

Decent whisky

Goes nice with bbq and chocolate/whipped cream cakes.

A very bad choice of a peated malt.

Great aftertaste

The first impression of the aroma is not bad, my memory warned me of worse. Damp woody fruity smoke. Trying to root it out more turned out to be a bad idea. In the background, salinity, citrus peel, the stench of wet wood, wet stones. But you have to work your way through the dominant one to those impressions in the background. I'm trying to guess what they dried the malt on. Barumkas? Probably not. Dunlop? Probably not. Michelin? Probably not. It will be a mixture. That they would bring all the flat tires from the Scottish islands there for recycling? Not that again. It's more like if you occasionally throw a beer mug and wood with a nice layer of paint into a fire made of fruit wood, where there is even a little fruit. The main thing is that it's on fire, isn't it? If you wait a while, the stench subsides and only exaggerated citrus appears, or it is a cleanser with a strong lemon scent and very sensitive for your skin. The taste is so bland, weird, slightly pungent and plastic-smoky (it wasn't tires, it was plastic waste). So I take it back, it was the tires. And cheap diluted honey from a plastic box. You can't finish it. Completion will still remind those tastes mischievously. The first impression of the aroma was not so bad, it would still go for pub whisky, but not really for the gateway to the world of single malt whisky. But the taste is horrible and horrible again. I wanted to write down how many points I gave it somewhere and I realized that I haven't scored it yet. I could have just left it at that. It reminded me of a song: Over the burning ground, over the bloody rivers, I continue to drink drink after drink. On my side heart, law, ages, this, however, is, like revenge, a terrible wall.

I had this Aerstone during a tasting yesterday. Absolute the worst whisky I had in years. It's that bad! Most of this whisky ended in the sink this evening..

This whisky has a pleasant but superficial drink. A hint of lemon and some sweetness. A short finish. The smoky flavour is strongly present, which makes this whisky appealing to me. Satisfied to have tried this one, but will not purchase it again.

Smoke and sweet. Really nice for price

Aerstone Land isn't bad. No ! ... Far from there ! But it's not a whisky for which we will get up at night to drink a drop.. No! .. Far from there ! An aperitif whisky or another moment of conviviality... No great transmission of information during the tasting, ideal then, for moments of sharing and carelessness between friends... Remains, however, a pleasant Highland whisky