Tastes

This bourbon is like sitting down to a slice of Apple Cobbler while sitting outside in an apple orchard in the fall. Fresh tart fall apples on the nose gives way to a vanilla and oat pallet and exceptionally smooth finish which brings some heat, like black pepper and caramel. An exceptional value for the quality. My only wish is that it had a little more power behind the flavors. It’s all very smooth and mellow.

This is the smoothest burbon I’ve ever had. The nose is full those caramel, mint and vanilla. The palate is brulee sugars, mint and charrd oak. The finish is syrupy dark sugars.

This whiskey is like a scoop of apple and vanilla Ice cream covered in chili caramel sauce and topped with a sprig of mint. Sweet caramel and mint on the nose. The palate is sweet and spicy warming up to a full creamy mouthfeel. The finish is a strong pepper and chili spice, fading as quickly as it stings. Adding a little water brings out a little more apples and mellows the finish.  Its a yummy whiskey and it has an especially fun mouthfeel!

Lemons and peat on the nose. This is like sitting down in cottage, with a peat fire and and a clean lemony home. The palate is sweet honey, milk chocolate. The complexity is high. It’s yummy. The finish is medium to quick.

This is surpringly like a warm cup of English Breakfast tea. Lot’s of black tea. I quite enjoy it.

This whiskey is like snacking on Cinnamon Ginger Brown Sugar fried Plantains. A beautiful dark color. This whiskey has a nose like fried plantains in butter and brown sugar. The palate is light and just a little sweet. The absence of a creamy mouthfeel is noted. It’s strange to say: the whiskey is “wet” like water on my tonge. But she more than makes up for it with a huge finish of plantains, vanilla, brown sugar caramel and warming ginger.

This whiskey is like the first time your grandma handed you a bowl of warm fruit cobbler with vanilla ice cream. It’s new, interesting, familiar, and comforting. Plums and cardimum on the nose. The palate is sweet and the finish is like hot raspberry sauce over vanilla ice cream.

Stewed pears on the nose. The palate is creamy and the finish is slightly peppery.

Apples and cherries on the nose, like smelling a mulled fruit punch. Theres vanilla, ginger, and toffee wafting up from the glass. Cinnamon and and spice hit first on the palate then turns to fruit. The finish hits hard — a sudden rush of chilies and black pepper overwhelm at first, then give away to mint and sun tea. This one will need some water, I think. With some water, the nose brings some molasses to accompany the cherries and apples. The palate is sweeter. The finish, less spicy and mellow. A tasty bourbon with some depth and nuances to explore. Yum!