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Copper & Kings Brandy Single Barrel Select
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Reviewed October 30, 2024Flaviar Single Barrel Selection 2019 Release An intense, Single Barrel Brandy by Joe & Lesley Heron; founders of; Copper & Kings Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. It is crafted with a blend of 60% French Colombard, 30% Chenin Blanc & 10% Muscat de Alexandrie; with a slow distillation at low temperatures, exclusively in copper pot-stills. It is then aged for 6 years in ex-Bourbon medium-char American White Oak barrels & a further 21 months of finishing in Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad barrels before being bottled at 55.5% ABV. (Ovila Quad is a Belgian-style Abbey Ale that was brewed with monks from New Clairvaux created especially for Flaviar.) It has an aromatic birth with notes of yeast, banana, clove, allspice, mulling spice, cinnamon, dried raisins, dates & walnut; while a bold & spicy life adds notes of dried red fruits, cinnamon, hints of honey, toffee, clove, dark cherry, blackberry, apricot, peach, butter & baked sweet bread; that led to a long & dry death with notes of toasted oak, flowers, vanilla & tannins. December 2019
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