Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Bourbon

Nose - Corn syrup stewed cherries, strawberry hard candies, milk chocolate, stale/flat diet/splenda cherry vanilla coke. Taste - Initially very thin, sweet cinnamon vanilla butterscotch, milk chocolate covered cherries, hint of salted caramel, light oaky bitterness that seems to be a cross of oak and orange pith. Finish - Light cinnamon heat, lingering splenda-like diet cherry vanilla coke sweetness. More oaky bitterness that's now more like an unsalted peanut shell that accidently got burnt. 82/100

If you like wood in your bourbon, you will like this. Some days I think it is amazing, other days, it seems like the wood overwhelms it a bit. But, that is what makes this bourbon great. I wish I could give it 4 and a half stars, so I rounded up. I buy it whenever I can, if it is not marked up too much (less than $40, but harder and harder to find at this price). I like it better, overall, than Blanton's.

Very smooth standard taste.