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Spicebox Cinnamon Whisky Lot 1642, 33%

Price: 17 Issue: Spring 2014 Reviewer: Davin de Kergommeaux Category: Flavored Whisky & Liqueurs

Cinnamon hearts. Very sweet and crazy hot with cinnamon. The cinnamon so dominates this liqueur-like drink that very little whisky manages to peek through until the very end of a long, murderously hot finish. Even then, cinnamon overrides the whiskyness, leaving a drink rather than a dram. Fun, yes, great fun, and almost certainly a bracing shooter, but it may be difficult to convince the whisky aficionado to think of this as whisky.