Laws Four Grain Straight Bourbon

Overly rye, not balanced

Tasting this neat, from a 100ml minibottle for $10 in Colorado. Nose is sweet grain floral and cotton candy. Color is golden brown, with thin legs. In the mouth, saccharine sweet flash, vanilla, then oak, spice, and ethanol bite, then licorice. Thin mouthfeel. Finish draws from licorice and dry oak into light sour and grassy rye. Ice cools it down and tamps down the sweetness, maybe adding the "blending" missing in this bourbon when sipped straight. 2-3 years seems too short for aging this wheated mashbill. It's all elbows and knees--too sweet, too spicy, too licorice/sour, etc, all at the same time. No blend no flow. If you’re looking for an easy bourbon flavor profile, this isnt it. And at Laws bourbons price-points in the $80-90 range... that's a heavy lift to justify. I feel better tossing $10 for the 100ml taster. But... it IS interesting.