Tastes

Nose is apricot off the bat - definitely high rye. Some rum sweetness, pleasant oak / slight cigar box note, some vanilla. Flavor is awesome. Vanilla whipped cream fruit with an amazingly creamy mouthfeel. No real sharp notes, just a nice warm hug. Let this one air out - it was a little hot when first opened, but rounded out super well after a few weeks. Finish is long and dope too. T8ke: 8.9

Nose: deep caramel / coffee / toffee sweetness. Dark cigar box- like wood sweetness. Definitely a vanilla cinnamon spice as well. Flavor: Big toffee-caramel on the front, pretty bold and rich. Moves more into a mild sweetness on the mid with wood notes coming through. Dry coffee notes on the back with some wood tannins. Caramel sweetness hangs out a bit - medium finish. Wood tannins seem a bit young and bitey. Otherwise, very good flavor - well worth the price tag. T8ke: 6.8

Nose: strawberry, cherry, plum, orange - pretty rich fruit. Some chestnut wood / hazelnut depth there too. A bit of astringency. Flavor: Mostly a very deep muted carmel up front. Very blunted - no sharp notes at all. Almost disappointing until the carmel sweetness starts to really pop mid-pallet. The fruitiness shows up immediately after. Overall very good and approachable...which is why Weller captures such a wide audience. Finish is not very long and there is nothing super interesting here...just very enjoyable in its simplicity. T8ke: 7.6

Nose: I first noticed a sweeter grassy (pea / potato?) note, oat-like rye spice, lighter stone fruit with a lemon zest. Some peppery oak, and slight solvent astringency. Taste: Sweet pea and honey seems to dominate here for me up front...which is strange. Notes of stone fruit and honeysuckle come through, then it unfolds into a nice carmel. There is a nice white pepper / oak hit on the tail end, and a suprisingly longer finish than expected. T8ke: 7.4

Nose is deep and rich caramel with hints of molasses, nutty dark chocolate, slight coffee. Early corn / soil note on it too - almost comes out as a granola Palette is as rich as the nose. All this dark flavors from the nose, but with much more of a molasses sweetness. Moving into the finish there is a slight smokiness that rolls into kind of a woody off flavor on the finish…pretty minute though, just slightly over oaked. A nice heat comes in on the finish that rolls into a dark caramel finish that hangs. Very good overall, but I don’t thin up to the hype. T8ke: 7.4

Nose has a very rich resinous wood hit off the bat, with spicy and rich fig-maple notes underneath. Almost a little leather / tobacco, but sweet. Slight mintiness, though it could be the oak char. Palette has a lot of brown sugar / maple / toasted oak sweetness up front. Unfolds into fig / dried fruit notes with some oak tannin punch coming in on the back. T8ke: 7.4

Nose is pretty sweet with light dried fruit- apricot, raisin, and a peppery coriander spice. Almost a run / brandy tang. Some baking spice & resinous wood. Palette is spicy up front - white pepper coriander, then unfolds into dried fruit and caramel. Spice comes back a little on the finish. Overall very good with some complexity. Enjoyable, but not mind blowing. T8ke: 7.1

39-8, 39% Rye mashbill - 60.03% abv, 6yrs 10mo Nose is hazelnut rum with a peppery vanilla, slight fatty mushroom tang, non-fruity sweetness that maybe has a slight apricot note, oat. Palette has a big honey-rum sweetness, the honey sticks out with a slight honey-suckle floral note, there is a deeper nutty-caramel behind it. Finish is great. The honey sweetness hangs and a nice Kentucky hug that kicks in. Relatively long finish T8ke: 8.3

Really good- tastes like all the normal eagle rare 10 notes are distilled and magnified a few times over. Rich with a unique chocoloate note. Front to mid palette has nothing suprising beyond its richness. Great long finish.