Tastes

Nose is soft but still has pear, orange, barrel char, a healthy amount of oak and almost a melon-like quality. Watermelon and cantaloupe come to mind and then cupcake sweetness. The palate is much better than I assumed. It has a light spice but low heat. Immediately a nice oak not quite baseball glove leather but not quite heavily oak or tannic oak either. The mouthfeel is somewhere between chewy and syrupy but not quite either. Candied oak and coconut candy, dried dark fruits of prune and raisin with a plump boozy coating, something that reminds me of Juicy Fruit gum that grows more of that vanilla cake, perhaps more almond as it lingers. The finish is medium length and semi dry. While it doesn’t taste like banana to me, it does have this warm, dense, banana bread characteristic. Walnut, banana cakiness, light cinnamon and brown sugar and a spritz of orange zest to kind of add this quickness in the finish.

nose is champagne, baking spices, shoe varnish, citrus, barrel char, caramel, soft leather and warm oak There is a ton going on with it... it doesn’t jump out at me necessarily as particularly inviting, but it is delicious with all the usual suspects you love in well aged whiskey. The palate initially is pretty smokey. Coming at it again - barrel char, bright citrus, and honestly a bit disappointed in the weight of the mouthfeel. It isn’t particularly rich (though the initial blast of smoke may feel coating). While it carries a lot of cherry, it seems muted in flavor, some of the honey-maple turkey a bit, a tad medicinal before turning into a long, dry baking spice finish with a little funk to it that should not be mistaken for Wild Turkey funk. While I notice the oak, it’s better presented in the nose.

Nose carries honey, sweet creamy peanut butter with slight hints of smoke underlying an earthier and chocolate sweetened middle. Aside from green apple, not really finding any fruitiness here, nor vanillas or boasting caramels. The palate is rich and chewy at 100 proof, leading with sweet oak then moving to creamy Heaven Hill peanut butter. A pop of citrus and baking spice initially and soft silky honey accompanying, it trails with a semi-dry cocoa nib finishing that lingering further with cherries and chocolate.

Freshly cracked bottle has more of that candied dill/spearmint rye going on then that floral cuts through over slight spice - not as much as their bigger intense single barrel B recipes. Honey, rye spice and raspberry finish the sips with a touch of cocoa and that lingering glazed donut thing we had in 130th. Doesn’t taste old, but doesn’t taste young. The rye stand helps to keep everything in check. Solid drink.

Marking this but actually the 12yr SiB

Slow start to the legs, dripping down the glass then catching up mid-way. The nose is sweet, medium in intensity - crisp apricot, green apple, butterscotch, wildflower honey, oak, leather, grape candy, orange peel. The palate is soft and gentle to start - a buttery mouthfeel without a lot of complexity - candied sugar, vanilla, butterscotch, cake batter, lavender - rye-like cinnamon spice finishing the sips with a medium length. By comparison to the 107 might have you thinking the 107 has bigger sweetness (and at the same time, more spice on intro), but going back to the CYPB I think definitely shows a rounder sweetness, and an oakier sweetness. That said, when blind and the 107 tamed with a bit of water to even the playing field, I still had 107 take the win on my first rodeo with this new limited edition. That said, the CYPB is continually offering up sweetness when drinking it alone. Each sip grows sweeter compounded on the previous sip. As it opens up I hope to keep finding more layers that I didn’t in the first visit. UPDATE 8/14: Another pour, this time along W12. Much more difficult to differentiate. The nose on this pour just rules - it is everything you want in a bourbon nose. I personally favored the sweetness of the CYPB to the 12, but noticed it was a slight bit harsh to drink compared to the more mellow 12. That said, you still get, perhaps more, oaky sweetness out of the CYPB. Personality in favor of polish, this definitely made me look at the CYPB differently. It is a really lovely drinker.