Tastes

I’m tasting this, but I wish I wasn’t. At first whiff it sort of smells like pop tart filling but that quickly dissipates. What it leaves behind...how to describe it... Ever make Kool Aid and forget to add sugar, and also don’t stir it well so it’s clumpy? This smells like that, with a pervasive grain alcohol smell coming through. I can’t tell if they’ve ruined a fine 4 year bourbon or masked a terrible one with fruit extract. Sickeningly sweet and completely undrinkable. I guess I’ll see what cocktails might salvage this mess.

Oak bomb that sported rich dark chocolate and blueberry notes reminiscent of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee.

Taylor in its purest form. A damn delight.

Had it in a flight and it ensured I’d be tracking down a bottle of every chapter.

So much going on in the nose: brown sugar, cinnamon toast, butterscotch, rye bread. The palate is a little tamer, boasting lush oak and rye toast. The finish is medium-long with lingering peppery rye spice.

I was a little skeptical because it catches a lot of hate but I was a fan. Deep and rich, with a prominent powdered sugar note for me. The finish was a little messy as I recall but otherwise a great bourbon.

A calmer (especially in the nose), dryer, more refined version of the 12 year. This one is deep, but I may actually prefer the 12. Still, I need to remember to get my own bottle of this.

Had in mini snifter. Nose- vanilla, oak tannins, foul nuttiness. Palate- spice and char, some vanilla, more shitty peanut, all extremely watered down. Finish- none

Nose is creamy vanilla and caramel, corn, robust oak, char. All of that plus vanilla and cocoa on the tongue accompanied by an assertive and satisfying burn. This bottle will never be beaten at its price point and I will be very sad when I go through my last one.

You know, this actually wasn’t too bad considering how dirt cheap it is. I’d drink it again.