Tastes

The nose is peat smoke and sea spray. The palate adds a savory burnt rib tips flavor, dried apricot and spice. The finish is lingering and very pleasant.

This stuff is really hardcore. Not recommended for timid tipplers. And it is a beast. The ethanol burn will bite your tongue. It's somewhat akin to making love with a she wolf.

Not at all what I expected from a corn whiskey. The nose is buttery, caramel, sweet biscuit, and toasted oak. The palate is straw, ash, grassy vegetal, licorice, black pepper, and a silky oily mouth feel. I don't find it at all sweet. This reminds me more of Scotch and aged tequila than of any other corn whiskey I have ever tried. I did like it and I look forward to trying a more mellow, matured expression in a few years. Like maybe an 8 yr old?

On the nose I'm getting vanilla, candied fruit, a little oak, and fresh corn. A good bit of ethenol burn on the taste no doubt due to the young age. Good rich mouth feel. Tastes of rich caramel, oak, and toasted corn. For the price, I like it a lot.

Rich smokey flavor with well balanced dried fruit and new mowed hay highlights.

It's a very smooth rye dominant whiskey. Not much nose, but it blooms nicely on the palate with sweet corn tinged with a touch of apricot. Leather and cinnamon on finish.

I cannot imagine why this gets an overall score of 80 while the Evan Williams Black gets an 85. This stuff is head and shoulders above the Black Label. This is a great bourbon for mixing in a summer cooler such as fresh squeezed lemonade.

To me this is exactly what good quality single barrel bourbon whiskey should taste like. This is the experience I'm looking for when it's just me and a straight up low ball glass of single barrel. Even though each year and each barrel number has it's own distinct character, they are all sublime.

Very rich fruity nose. As for the taste; I'd rank both vanilla and fruity aspects a little higher than the experts profile. I think it's a lovely sippin' bourbon either straight up or with 1 or 2 clear ice cubes.