Tastes

Cherries, vanilla, and apples on the nose. The palate is wonderfully complex with dark fruits and milk chocolate. It used to be a steal in my area running for $25ish a bottle, but it's becoming a bit fairer as the price has been creeping up to $30-35.

I keep a bottle around to mix with other drinks for people I don't like, mainly because they need to mix whiskey with something in order to drink it.

I have a family that's heavily into cognac and Japanese whisky, and as so, I've probably drank 2 bottles worth of this by now, and I still don't know how to feel about it. Nose and palate feels complex, but I can't seem to pick this whisky apart. I might have to come back to this later.

On the nose, you get hints of bourbon followed by bourbon and with a little bit of bourbon at the end. After sitting on this bourbon for a while, I've concluded that the palate is objectively bourbon. Although this bourbon is very bourbon, it is pretty well-roundedly so and is probably the most inoffensive and friendly bourbon I've had so far.

I started off hating whisky, and Johnny Walker was among the firsts I've ever had along with Jack Daniel's and Bulleit. Before I really started liking whisky, I used to tell people whisky tasted like rancid fungus water like how the water in your water bottle tastes after you've left in the trunk of your car on a very hot day. Now the only thing that still tastes like that to me is this whisky.

I get a ton of banana on the nose and chocolate and dark coffee on the palate, especially towards the finish. It's pretty different and I find it rather enjoyably sippable.

This bourbon is ferociously blueberry muffins. I also happen to like blueberries and muffins.

The nose is floral with notes of grapefruit and orange peel, licorice, and a little bit of lavender. The mouthfeel is a little light, but the flavor is fairly complex.