Belle Meade Sour Mash Straight Bourbon

Lots of spice. Almost hot from the spice.

Vanilla, Carmel, finish cinnamon.

Delicately balanced. Orange peel on the nose with a soft caramel backing. Fruit sweetness with a quick hit of rye spice immediately following. Quite pleasant.

Very demure and restrained on the nose for a bourbon with pretty floral, caramel, citrus oil, and apricot aromas. (The alcohol is quite subdued. Sour mash shows up especially on the initial taste.) Surprisingly chewy and unctuous on the palate with soft and sweet flavors of maple, apple, cherry, caramel, vanilla, and deep plum giving way to an herbal, bitter orange, medicinal, and spicy rye finish. A little bit original and a little bit familiar all at the same time. Kind of like an MGP bourbon, a rye, a Speyside, and Jack Daniels had a gang bang in a Lawrence Durrell novel. Raunchy and elegant, Bohemian and disciplined all at once