Ben Holladay 6 Year Bottled in Bond Bourbon

Roxanne: It’s like bourbon but more like that old lady with the super long nails, tons of jingly bracelets, leather skin, and smokers cough and voice when she calls you honey accidentally let her long cigarette ash fall in the barrel while she was filling it. Tom: This stuff is made about 40 minutes from Kansas City. That area should stick with BBQ.

Tasting Batch 1 from Spring '22. This is good stuff. In a blind you'd be convinced this was from Kentucky. I get rich caramel, vanilla, cherry, butterscotch, cocoa, barrel, and a little nuttiness. Profile wise I think this is similar to wild turkey 101, but maybe with slightly more butterscotch and dark cherry, and less nuttiness and citrus. Which makes sense because I believe the mash bills are similar (based on what they told me at the distillery). The only problem here is the price, but I guess that it is probably priced appropriately for the current market and considering they've basically started their releases with a 6 year product. If you guys are in the Kansas City are, go tour the distillery. The grounds have beautiful rolling hills, limestone wells (discovered by Lewis and Clark), a cave (for their upcoming double oaked products) and brick and wood rick houses, just like the big boys in KY. They'll let you dip your finger in the fermenting tanks and have a sip of white dog. The people there are awesome. I feel lucky and thrilled that this place is in my backyard. I've got a single barrel barrel proof offering I'll need to review another day, but right now just happy to be sipping on this.

Pretty good. Decent flavor, little to no burn. Maybe hints of chocolate/cocoa.