George Dickel Bottled-In-Bond Spring 2011 Tennessee Whisky Review
The nose is rich and complex, combining dried flowers, ripe raspberries and blackberries and whiskey-wetted oak.
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Old Elk Cognac Finish Bourbon Review
There are days when I think, “I’m finished with cask finishes!” and then there are days when cask finishes redeem themselves. Old Elk Cognac Cask Finish did that recently when I tasted it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Larceny Barrel Proof Batch B524 Review
If any tells you bourbon is too one dimensional, all vanilla and butterscotch, hand them this bottle. It’s a veritable fruit salad of flavor and aroma, kicking off with a rich, buttery nose of caramel-covered red apple, soft baking spice, and cocktail cherry.
Maker’s Mark ‘Heart Release’ Bourbon Review
Like every wood-finished Maker’s release, The Heart Series offers up a rich and complex nose featuring oak, chocolate, cinnamon and clove. Pastries, pie crust and fruit tarts made from all three doughs emerge laced with caramel and mocha.
15 Stars Private Stock Bourbon Review
The palate backs up the nose with bitter chocolate, milk chocolate, honey, cooked cherries and Demerara syrup. Brown sugar and baking spices collide and reemerge independently to form a fantastic, warm finish.
High West Bottled-In-Bond Rye Review
I opened it immediately upon receipt and found it coiled up like a snake and needing to unwind before showing much of the character that would come with a bit of some space in the bottle. Several weeks later, it delivered.
Milam & Green Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon Whiskey Review
On the nose of this BIB release is spring in a glass–a mixed bouquet of peonies, roses and lilac–backed by cinnamon stick and lavender. I’d be hard pressed to recall nosing such a floral spirit.
A. Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey Review
This is rye whiskey that speaks beyond corn’s common caramel coating with a voice that goes deeper, all the way into the soil itself, to tell its own story, a story I find utterly intriguing because it reveals itself through taking new sips to turn a new page in the tale.
Bardstown Bourbon Co. Collaborative Series Amrut Barrel Finished Review
Now, go to a quiet room, add earplugs if necessary, and place a large napkin over your head to capture all the crazy aromas you’ll get from this—things like over-baked chocolate brownies, figs, prunes, bonfire embers, ganache, chocolate cake, pastry cream and a deeply charred barrel.
Rare Hare The Tempest Review
It’s a whisky as impressive for its variety of flavors as for how those flavors develop. Even if I had Bill Gates’s bank account, I wouldn’t want to drink something like this all the time or casually when I did. I want to think that’s by design.