By
George Brozowski
Well
waddya know, high tech finally not only meets low
tech but they date, get married and run off together and have
thousands of babies. In this particular case the high tech
is the website kickstarter.com which bills itself as "the
world's largest funding platform for creative projects"
and the low tech, although not so low, is the wanna-be new
Scotch on the block, SIA (the Gaelic word
for 6).
I've
known about Kickstarter for a while now and they have crowd
funded numerous start-ups. Essentially, the entrepreneur describes
the project on their website, the overall goals and costs
to launch and hundreds if not thousands of people wanting
to get in on the action pledge amounts of money ranging from
a few bucks to a few thousand bucks and if the monetary goal
is achieved the product or service launches and everyone holds
their collective breath.
The
entrepreneur in this case is Carin Luna-Ostaseski
a Scotch enthusiast, licensed bartender and a former Creative
Director who has spent years blind tasting over 100 different
Scotches and then testing and tweaking variations until she
came up with "THE" Scotch. In this case it is a
blended Scotch whiskey distilled, matured and produced in
Scotland containing a blend of Speyside and Highlands Scotch
with a touch of Islay.
There
must be a lot of Scotch lovers out there because Carin not
only met her goal of raising $39,000 but exceeded it and with
the help of 245 new friends/investors she raised $45,784 and
produced her first batch of the new Scotch. Well, let's see
how she did.
It
is pale golden in color. It is crisp and clean on the nose
and not oaky at all and just very slightly smoky. It continues
with a sweet citrus like quality that eventually settles into
a peppery toffee. The smoke finally takes center stage on
the palate but it is not overwhelming and nicely balanced
with the sweet citrus. It really is a simple pleasure and
not overly complicated. The finish concludes with the citrus
coming in first followed by the smokey scotch which lasts
a fair amount of time leaving a clean mouth feel with a slight
tingle.
On
the rocks, the palate becomes nuanced and all the flavors
blend harmoniously with the smoke taking a gentle lead and
the citrus blending back a bit. This is a delicate scotch
that a first timer might like and an old timer might take
to sipping on a summer's day. If you can get your hands on
it give it a try, it comes in a 750ml bottle and is 86 proof
and was set to launch just this past May 2013.
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www.siascotch.com/
