Tastes
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Eagle Rare Aged 15 Years
Bourbon — New Orleans, LA, USA
Reviewed June 21, 2020 (edited August 26, 2021)Found on a dusty shelf in a liquor store. Hard to find anything about it, looks like it’s one of the couple thousand bottles produced by Eagle Rare for the Japanese market. Import label pegs the bottle from 1990, before Sazerac bought Buffalo Trace. Color: Deep copper, like a new penny. Nose: Ton of vanilla and fresh cream. Almond, apricot, and bit of spun sugar come through. Palate: Holy crap, that’s rich. Smooth as butter, with the almond and cream coming through stronger. Toward the back, it sharpens with some allspices, oak, smoke, and salted caramel. Finish: A little fiery, but given the proof, that’s expected. Calms down and leaves a nice oily finish with notes of heavy cream, vanilla pudding, and lingers with a sweet stone fruit. Adding a couple drops of water rounds the edges and really allows the sweetness and caramel to pull through. Overall sweeter than the 17 year, maybe a touch over sweet, but balanced well and a lot richer on the palate. -
One Eight Distilling Untitled Whiskey No. 18
Blended American Whiskey — USA
Reviewed June 20, 2020 (edited April 2, 2021)One Eight’s first run of blending their 2 yr old house made rye with their 14 yr old sourced bourbon. Nose: orange, cherry, ethanol Palate: Oak, spice, cherry coke, pecan, toasted nuts, cereal, grapefruit Finish: vanilla pudding, vegetable, caramel, baking chocolate The rye spice comes through nicely and the finish lingers for a while with a wonderful mix of flavors. The corn distillate adds a fire to the nose, diluting with a little water tamps that down and really boosts the flavors. -
Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey (Sourced Whiskey)
Tennessee Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed June 10, 2020Nose: sugar, vanilla Palate: Vanilla, oak, toffee Finish: mild swallow, sugary finish with notes of cinnamon
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