Tastes
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Plantation Pineapple Stiggins' Fancy Rum
Flavored Rum — Multiple Countries
Reviewed February 3, 2021Great value, great taste. Good to sip and also great as a mixer. Nose is full of delicious sweetness and pineapple without being too cloying. Finishes with a nice nose burn. Palette is very comparable to the nose. Lots of layers of sweetness that are nuanced enough to be interesting, and not so sweet as to be offensive. Finish is nice and clean. Not too long. Incredible beverage really, especially for the price and versatility! -
McQueen and the Violet Fog Gin
Distilled Gin — Brazil
Reviewed January 26, 2021 (edited August 2, 2024)Generally use gin in cocktails, but this is one that can easily be drank neat too. Nose has significant lime, quinine and pine with a hit of berry/strawberry. Palate, as weird as this sound it tastes like if you made sprite into a liquor, but made it bespoke and craft. Very fresh tasting with more traditional gin flavors creating an undertone here, and newer botanicals taking the forefront. Still very heavy on the lime and quinine... delicious. -
100% malted rye and twin copper pot stills make for a very smooth, atypical rye experience. Nose is nice and full of fresh baked bread and cookies. Palate is grassy, sweet, chocolatey and then fades into some baking spices with a dash of heat. However, the grassy note never fades, it stays with you through the whole journey. Finish, thin to medium bodied, not a lot of heat... but the grass it still there. Overall, will pass ok buying again. But they do have a really cool t-shirt of this expression!
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Barrell Dovetail (122.9 Proof)
Blended American Whiskey — (bottled in) Kentucky, USA
Reviewed August 14, 2020 (edited April 22, 2021)I love most spirits, big bourbon, rum, tequila, mezcal, Armagnac/brandy/calvados guy.... even gin. Only stuff I don’t like is vodka... because vodka. If you came to this party to find some whiskey or bourbon’esque creation, move on. If you appreciate spirits because of their complexities and differences, you’ll be in good company with this spirit. Nose packs apple pie, cherry, caramel, brown sugar and vanilla. Very pleasant and very low burn for the proof. I don’t get any of the spice or menthol the official review said. Instead, it’s replaced by wave after wave of sweet, warm, and campy flavors. Vanilla and butterscotch follow a cherry apple bomb that fades into a brown/Demerara sugar flavors. Finish is thick and luscious, lots of mouthfeel and again a feeling of warmth without burn. This is potentially the best sweeter / dessert style corn alcohol product ever made. -
Fortaleza Reposado Tequila
Tequila Reposado — Tequila Valley, Jalisco, Mexico
Reviewed August 13, 2020 (edited February 4, 2021)My first foray into actually discovering and appreciating a tequila. Incredibly sweet agave heavy nose with herbaceous pepper notes and a light waft of oak. Not much alcohol present in the nose, but the overall robustness of the smells is crazy, much more potent than any bourbon, cognac, rum or gin I’ve ever tried. Agave is overwhelming in the palette as well, not in a bad way. Other flavors include oak, pine, bitters, cinnamon, pepper and diesel. Finish is very floral with the diese lingering. Dry and sticky. Delicious stuff. Great as a sipper, also great in a lemon basil margarita. -
Plantation Multi-island XO
Aged Rum — Caribbean, Multiple Countries
Reviewed August 4, 2020 (edited September 28, 2020)A very rare 5 for me. Not a big rum connoisseur but branching out from bourbons, scotch and mezcal.... WOW. Single cask, 46.5%, matured in French wine cask, aged in bourbon then cognac, cask #1, bottle #111. Distilled at West Indies distillery long pond and Clarendon. This is the pick intended for Ticonderoga club in Atlanta that somehow ended up at Holeman & Finch bottleshop. The nose is filled with vanilla, banana and heated raw sugar. Pineapple is present but less so. Oak finishes the nose The palate is all kinds of vanilla, cream, apple, banana, burned sugars and caramel. It finishes with a heavy dose of allspice, cinnamon, anise and clove. Finish is oily at first but quickly dries into a puckering spice. Phenomenal liquid. -
Delord Armagnac 25 Year
Armagnac — Bas-Armangac, France
Reviewed August 2, 2020 (edited January 20, 2022)Easily my favorite, and the best thing in my liquor cabinet. More of a rye/bourbon guy, but I also dabble in ages rums, brandies, tequilas and mezcal. Nose is Walnut, caramel, butterscotch, honey and a herbaceous note... marjoram? Very toasty, warm, bready and sweet. The palette is more fruit forward, peaches, cherry and very ripe banana dominate. Butterscotch, and honey dipped bread follows, nice baking spice sweet/spice to the end and finally finished with a dry cocoa and cinnamon. Enormous finish, very thick and sweet while maintaining its balance to not be sickeningly sweet. My only 5 star. -
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed August 1, 2020 (edited August 6, 2020)Some people hype this hard, some day overrated. Guess it depends what you like in a bourbon. Sweet, deep, woodsy are the themes. Full nose, very fragrant. Burnt sugar and banana bread. Palate isn’t the most complex, but what it has, it does well. Cherry, vanilla and Caramel with a nice oaky banana bread finish. Seriously smooth, and with a nice enough swig definite some type of citrus note at the tail end. Finish is pretty all encompassing, very thick mouthfeel that lingers and finishes significantly drier than expected. -
Bull Run Distilling American Whiskey Cabernet Cask Finish
Blended American Whiskey — Oregon, USA
Reviewed May 8, 2020Unexpectedly good. Cbrc club pick “bull somm”. 124.26 proof. Lots of ethanol heat in the nose with some overly ripe fruit notes. None of the classic vanilla oak nose. Flavors are very mellow for the proof and the nose. Interesting combination of underripe banana with overripe pears and apples. Finishes with lots of cherry and a hint of burnt sugars. Dry finish, that lasts for days. -
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Barrel Proof Tennessee Whiskey
Tennessee Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed April 30, 2020 (edited August 3, 2020)Amazing how long it took this to open up. Cbrc pick “Blast Furnace” 130.9 proof. Hated this at first, couldn’t taste anything through the heat.... 6 months later.... Review is spot on all around. Nose and palette full of caramel, burnt sugars and butterscotch. Very slight flavors of apple, not crisp and green but almost rotten sweet red apple. Nice finish, long and slightly spicy.
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