Bib & Tucker 10 Year Small Batch Bourbon

Lots of oak. Bitter and spicy.

A bold, Tennessee sour mash bourbon by August Sebastianif for 3 Badge Beverages in Kentucky aged for 10 years. It has an aromatic birth with notes of grain, wood, dried fruits, nuts, herbs & spices; while a bold life adds notes of sweet roasted corn, dried pears, apple cider, vanilla & cocoa; that led to a long, warm & woody death adding notes of cracked pepper, toasted oak, rye, pipe tobacco, cedar, milk chocolate, cinnamon, chestnuts, burnt caramel & smoke. August / October 2024

Smooth, sweet and delicious. More sweet than peppery but does have a peppery finish.

Color: golden orange Nose: hint of sweet cereal Neat: cereal grains, hint of grass and leather, light on the palate; light, medium length hug at the finish. Right before the finish is burst of mint flavor that disappears quickly Rocks: herbal and grass flavors increase with ice melt

Gifted to me at Xmas, let’s see if this bottle can change my opinion of Dickel. Medium strength aroma is very fruity with rum soaked fruit cake, berry, light vanilla, and a distracting mineral note. Tried and failed to get much else. Ethanol is low. Palate opens with more caramel and vanilla than the nose would indicate, along with some date, fig, mandarin orange, and maple. All the notes are sweet, simple, and kind of flat. That said, the palate actually doesn’t suck. Medium length finish features light cinnamon and nutmeg and then…while I hate to be cliche I have to keep it real; where my tongue wanted oak/wood, I got goddamn Flintstone vitamins. Just…why??? Mouthfeel is light bodied and being neither creamy or grainy; compliments the flavor profile decently enough. A high point. So apparently my friend spent $85 on this. Yikes. I wish he would have told me he was getting me a bottle as I would have had him get me a bottle of 1920 or Rare Breed and saved him $30. Or Hell even a bottle of Wild Turkey 101 which I would have enjoyed more. For Dickel lovers only, which I most certainly am not.

Sweet like molasses and some spice un the finish