Tastes

Aroma is dessert/candy sweet with soft grainy notes and a touch of oak with some light fruity notes – it lacks that harsh craft profile, but also lacks any sense of depth; Palate is where the youth really comes out in force with raw woody, grainy and metallic notes with bits of fruit, honey and spice keeping it from being a typical craft whiskey; Finish starts nice, but turns to that raw wood “craft” profile I’m not a fan of.

Aroma is dry, minerally, chalky banana chips at first, but quickly opens to honied fruits, smoke and fresh pastries showing a lovely malty profile underpinning it all; Palate hits with honey and smoke with a malt kicker followed by sweeter dessert and fruit notes with a coastal profile weaving through; Finish takes a turn for the sweet with fruit and candy notes fading out into the smoke.

Aroma sits warm and buttery with a profoundly fruity presence mixed with light smoke and a dusting of vanilla accented desserts – it’s nice, but feels like it’s missing something; Palate comes through like a smoked banana’s foster with a malty / graham essence and a touch of marshmallow sweetness; Finish is a dialed back expressions of the palate with more smoke

Aroma is freshly made birthday cake, waxy blown out candles and all, with layers of fruity sweetness, citrus and mild earthy notes; Palate carries that same birthday cake note, with vanilla frosting and a touch of candle wax, profile but carries more earthy minerally, smoke and fruity notes; Finish loses the birthday cake notes, but not all the sweetness, and doubles down on the earthy phenolic profile.

Aroma is a nice diverse rollout that’s more subtle than previous years – you need to take your time with it and let the candy, malty, wine and smoky notes pass to findthe apple notes below; Palate is interesting and unique in its totality and I can’t quite place it but it’s like Honey Nut Cheerios by a fire with some olde tyme candy dots and just a touch metallic; Finish is a muted velvety version of the palate.

Aroma is BBQ meat on leathery dark fruit with a candied citrus pop and light earthy notes that pull it all together into a shifting and engaging olfactory experience; Palate is like having the best strawberry shortcake you can imagine after eating perfectly grilled sardines; Finish is a touch smoky and that last, semi-metallic, sip of a red wine that’s sat out a bit too long.

Aroma is smoky, coastal, and fresh pastries married by an underlying fruity dessert sweetness and earthy oakiness; Palate carries the coastal notes and adds juicy fruit and delicately sweet notes with barley water and a metallic twang; Finish is smoke heavy with light sweet and earthy notes.

Aroma is deep, heavy and complex and is absolutely my favorite part of this whiskey with that “Tennessee Whiskey” (George Dickel) profile threading through the sweet, spicy and earthy notes; Palate isn’t as rich as the aroma, like a 3/4 volume version, but still with that TN profile weaving and threading everything together; Finish is nice and long and fades out slowly to that sweet dried corn TN profile.

Aroma sits warm and heavy with a solid plank of oak to support and serve up the dynamic aroma that ranges from fruity sweet to earthy and coppery; Palate has even more going on with a wider array of fruit and dessert sweets combined with earthier and more metallic notes, but again, all served on a solid hunk of oak; Finish seems to pull back from the richness a bit, but it’s still a nice sweet and spicy fade.

Aroma smells so much like Dickel I’d be surprised if it wasn’t with the way that soft grainy sweetness and light copper profile float through; Palate is warm, coppery, fruity and a touch cocoa, but heavy with the grain-based sweetness and that signature Tennessee warmth; Finish picks up a heavier, darker, sweetness that fades to a lightly sweet copper.