Worthy Park 9 year Rest & Be Thankful Wu Dram Clan/Kirsch (50%)

N: caramel and butterscotch and peanut butter cookie subdue fruity esters (pineapple, green strawberry). With water: greener and fruitier, soursop or guava

P: sharper and spicier than 50% would suggest, and also drier and more watery than the nose. Peanuts and butterscotch again. But not so sweet, and there’s grainy, dusty young wood. I’m missing some of the fruit, though. With water (just a single drop) this hits a sweet spot. Not distinctive, but good

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Worthy Park 5 year 2016 Transcontinental Rum Line (57.2%)

N: Peanut butter cookies again, more oily industrial notes and less fruit, but initially more muted in all dimensions. That changes some with air: even more peanut butter batter, dirt and grass, oil. With water: sweeter, caramel

P: softer entry than the R&BT, with the alcohol emerging only on the finish. Not much fruit here, but still those peanut butter cookies and the industrial side, some grass and metal. With water: again, sweeter, actually much sweeter, and the industrial stuff is smoothed down. Almond extract

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Worthy Park 9 year 2015 Bedford Park bourbon barrel no. 4 (60.8%)

N: back to butterscotch and caramel, with a deeper woody side, not dark or tannic but cedar and sandalwood. The fruit this time is closer to stone fruit than berry but still some pineapple too. With water: banana, and more stone fruit, and some herbs

P: the deepest and most expressive of the flight. Aromatic woods and barky spice, just-ripe stone fruit and stemmy pineapple, butterscotch. With water: a little more of everything. Salty caramel corn, flambéed banana, a hint of bubblegum even. Certainly the worthiest of these Worthy Parks

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