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Where to start? Neck pour but every sip and sniff evolves. Like others, I find this is more true to Balcones than to rye whiskey and that's not bad.
The youth is evident on the nose as rye new make leads the way. Interestingly it's not a burn your nose kind of fragrance and I find this on all Balcones I try. In the background is burnt sugar and bitter chocolate with a touch of green apple.
The chocolate comes forward on the tongue but more like cocoa powder and a touch of ground coffee and burnt sugar. I fail to pick out any typical rye flavors here.
It excels on the finish and I find that chocolate covered espresso bean that many others have noted. It lasts until I am ready for my next sip.
This is my third Balcones tasting and I find more similarities with the Texas single malt than to a rye whiskey. My theory is that the aging process in the Texas heat causes the chocolate/coffee/burnt sugar notes. The heat accelerates the aging which gives those flavors as opposed to the more conventional ones.
The youth comes through a bit too much for me but this is a very different whiskey and a nice change of pace.
This was a sample bottle so I don't know if something was wrong, but this was undrinkable, if you ever got pine tar in your mouth paying baseball that's the closest thing I can compare it to
Nose: soap
Palate: pickles, dirt, leaves
Finish: pickle juice
This tastes like someone steeped pickle juice with a bar of soap, dumped it on the ground, and squeezed out the liquid from the dirt.