Tastes

Tasted in a bar from wide glass so take review lightly (photo relevant)* Nose: hard to get in the glass provided but... Caramel, vanilla apple, cherry, blackberry pie filling, dusty musk fruity and sweet. Taste: cherry, cacao, waxy nuttyness oak, with a long warm finish. A great dessert pour, warm, lingering and sweet. Its your first post summer visit to your Grandma's and she has her famous fruit pie with a side of ice cream ready and waiting mixing with the dust from the dirt road you took there.

Nose: Wood, cherry, maple, clove, and a hint of pie crust. Taste: Sweet fruit and maple leading into a dark chocolate with some maple. Building throughout is a tanic wood that makes the sides of your mouth pucker and lingers after as a subtle nutty (character not flavor wise) wood. Experience: Your cleaning old furniture with a sented oil. This Maker's has a sweet and sour vibe for me, the usual finishing series notes show up but the heavy tanic wood isn't as heavy in most releases. I am really enjoying it but could see the finish pitting some off.

Nose: cinnamon, nutmeg, fruity cherry, woody sticky seeet maple. Taste: sweet maple spiking quickly to a hot and spicy cinnamon rolling back into a sweet chocolate then ending in a bitter burn of nutmeg and chard spices. Very enjoyable pour with levels of complexity. On the sweet side but evened out by its bitter finish.

Nose: Crisp honey apple, pear, sliiight lemon zest, with light dusty grain notes. Taste: apples again, pear, citrus, nutmeg. Wish I had more to say about this pour, but its pretty straightforward. Good but simple.

Nose: cinnamon is at the core of this pour, dusty hay, caramelized sugars, a hint of cherry. Taste: salted caramel, crisp apple, cinnamon spice with a lingering heat. More: Believe the hype. I was desperately hoping the hype was just the classic tater craze taking over yet another limited release, however this bottle is gud. Like damn good. Hot and oily with a warm finish that like the energizer bunny just keeps going and going and go... Well you get the poont. If you see it, buy it (within reason ov course).

Nose: cherry coke, pie crust, nutmeg. Taste: hot, cinnamon, cherries, bitters, black pepper (more cherry coke). This is a spicy boy for sure. Hot but rich and full bodied a solid poor if you can take the heat.

Nose: light and delicate cherry, cinnamon, vanilla. Very hard to find specific notes but nothing offensive. Taste: cherry, nutmeg, cinnamon, long full mouth warmth, a hint of maple on the finish. More: this is a great bourbon to poor dor friends, and those looking to get into bourbon, also anyone who likes purity over uniqueness. There is nothing offensive, off or wrong about this pour, but also nothing new, unique or interesting. Its solid and does the whole "bourbon" thing well. Its a straight through down center plate. Personally I prefer more spikey and interesting pours, but Frank is doing what it does well even if its been done before.

Nose: Caramelized bananas, cinnamon rolls, honey rosted almonds, dry dust, cotton candy. Taste: oak, dry orange peel, dry wine, buttery light finish, The nose and pallette do not match, the nose is hyper sweet with char and sugar all day. The taste however is still sweet but also mouth puckeringly dry. The Pinot Noir has had its way with the whiskey and not much is left otger than more dry oak and a long not unwelcome finish that is light and buttery. It is not a "bad" thing that the nose and taste differer so much, but i cant help but be a little disappointed after the promise of rich burt sugars to end up with a dry "winy" taste.

Nose: sea salt, light smoked meat, caramel, pear, aged white cheddar, slight baking spices. Taste: earthy, chalky, salty, sweet. More: I find it pretty hard to nail down the palate on this one, it's good, just hard to define. It's both a lighter and punchier version of the classic 16, the body has less heft to it but the sharper notes stand out more. Highly recommend if you like the classic and want to spin off in some directions.

Nose: Dark chocolate, nutmeg cherry, berries, wet wood, slightly sour yeast. Taste: sweet hot berries, lingering warm cinnamon, orange peel, ending in a lasting and slightly bitter chocolate finish on the sides of the mouth. I wasn't too impressed when I quickly tried this after some other bourbons. However if you sit with it (especially as the only poor of the night on a fresh pallette, maybe the first pour of the week) it grows into a mature and complex dram. The chocolate notes on the nose show up as cocoa but on the palate the flavor hides until the end hitting the sides of the mouth as dark chocolate, and not the 50% stuff but 90% dark, the bitter lingering stuff. I'm really pleased I grabbed a bottle after my unimpressed initial impression because it's a joy to sit with and break apart. Just have it on its own or the subtle flavors might be missed.