Tastes
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I like a good cheap bottle of JW Black, but I was underwhelmed by this. Definitely not worth the price point to me. It tasted like a $75 bottle, not $200. Nose: dried fruit, sweet wheat biscuit cereal Taste: strawberries with decent smoke Finish: medium to long, with a waxy aftertaste200.0 USD per Bottle
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Nose: cherries and oak, cherries and oak, cherries and oak. Taste: unlike Makers Mark which also has a flavorful cherries and oak smell, Larceny’s does not carry over to the palate. Just ethanol and wheat spice. Bitter. Finish: short. The older Fitzgeralds are great (too bad you can’t find them anywhere). But this is not. Occasionally a barrel pick will shine but I mostly avoid this. Makers is better in every way.
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This is a review of a 2023 TopHat Liquors (Kentucky) barrel pick. Nose: balanced corn, vanilla and hints of spice Taste: candied corn, more vanilla, brown sugar and instead of the usual high rye spice forward, this spice sneaks in at the end. Finish: medium Great complimentary flavors to the mainline Woodford bottles. And at $60 for 1L it was an amazing deal. Too bad some of the other bourbon companies are not producing barrel selections like this.
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Coopers' Craft Barrel Reserve 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed January 4, 2024 (edited February 16, 2024)Brown Forman might be messing with you. This is identical to Old Forester 100. Taste, nose, finish, all of it. Except it costs a little more. Because the label is different? Kind of weird. OF100 is a good daily sipper and I rated it as such. But since this is supposed to be a different bourbon I gave this a 3.75 out of 5 — just like OF100! -
Amador Double Barrel Bourbon Chardonnay Barrel Finish
Bourbon — USA
Reviewed January 4, 2024 (edited January 5, 2024)Nose: brown sugar, oak, nutty Taste: dusty barkey, oats/grains, baking spices Finish: medium First time I tasted this I was pleasantly surprised but coming back it impressed me less and less. The Chardonnay barrel gives it an odd bitterness on the palate. May have to come back to it in the future. -
Jack Daniel's Bonded Tennessee Whiskey
Tennessee Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed December 17, 2023 (edited December 18, 2023)Jack Daniel’s black label, the standard Tennessee whisky, is not bad at all for a bottom shelf American whisky. It’s basically just a bourbon that undergoes the “Lincoln County Process” …but this wasn’t as good. Nose: you get that famous JD banana on the nose but this was like a mushy over-ripened banana that isnt too appealing and kind of funky. Taste: the banana goes away thankfully but nothing too special, this just tastes like Jack Daniel’s. Finish: short Pass on this. Disappointed.30.0 USD per Bottle -
My second favorite of the Nikka Coffey still bottles. Nose: sweet candied-corn, very soft alcohol scent, and a kind of floral-perfumy hint on the nose Taste: smooth with hints of grass, lemon, vanilla Finish: very short, a tiny bit of cinnamon at the end You can tell the barley is in there, but it doesn’t taste like Mellow Corn for instance even though corn makes up most of the mashbill or so I’ve read. It’s a good whisky but not for the $75-90 price point. If you can find it in sale it’s probably worth buying a bottle.
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Nose: vanilla, caramel, dusty corn Taste: baking spices and a hint of banana Finish: a hint of orange peel and longer than you’d expect from a bottom shelf staple The fact Jim Beam can make this at a massive scale with consistency just reinforces my opinion that most craft distilleries won’t survive the last decades bourbon boom.
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