Bulleit 10 Year Bourbon

Clearly sourced from Four Roses (like, for the time being, its younger sibling), the flavour profile is a bit of a drier, oakier version of some Four Roses Small Batch/Single Barrel hybrid. Nose and taste lean toward the "classic" bourbon notes: vanilla, caramel, a bit of peppery, rye spice, char, woody tannins, a bit of cola. Body is a bit a thin. It's a nice whiskey, at a pretty reasonable price (particularly in the face of some of the craziness that's going on now in the bourbon world). But it's also nowhere near as nice as the stuff Four Roses is bottling for themselves. Unfortunately, Four Roses has almost disappeared entirely from shelves in my local market (AB, Canada), so I suppose Bulleit 10 will do in a pinch.