Four Gate Batch 14 Old Sherry Pike

Vanilla, sherry nuts and baking spices on the nose. Palate is more of the same. Finish is long and warm with some chocolate and oak spice. Worth $200? No way. At $100 it would've been amazing, but just expected more at the price point.

NOSE Sherry, copper, strawberry shortcake, vanilla, roasted nuts, bits of oak and baking spice, dried cherries and brown sugar. The sherry leaps out of the glass on this one, it’s a huge hit followed by an undertow of everything else. PALATE Dried dark fruit, oak, baking spice, nuts citrus peels, copper, freeze dried blueberries, hazelnuts and leather baking spice. fruit syrup Sweet and spiced with a huge layer of oak and more earthy notes. It hits an odd couple balance. FINISH Long -> Sherry, oak, baking spice and nuts fade out to an oaky spice.

Had to add this one, and for the 1000th time, what a horrible ap this is. Guys, DESKTOP! let us do this from our computers. Anyway blend of 6 and 12 year. Heaven hill and Barton, not a huge fan of 6 year old heaven hill but whatever. Finished in a sherry cask they got from Kelvan for 88 days. I'm not sure this is a special cask based on the details. Nose - sweet vanilla, nice sherry fruity elements, and then some funky earthy oak notes that are out of place. The problem is the funk is overwhelming this. Overall, a bit odd, but we'll get into it and come back with water. Taste - Heaven Hill's dusty nutty youthful bourbon notes jump out at me. Then just intensity of bourbon, and finishing chocolatey. Wow, going in for a second taste. OK, well balanced and well put together bourbon giving hints of youth and some age. The barton cinnamon apples is really coming through for me. There's a very old oak note half way through this as well. Finish is medium long, spicy. The sherry is certainly here but it isn't juicy or heavy. Water - HIGHLY recommend hitting this with water. The water brings through some nice vanilla pudding notes on the nose. The taste gets sweeter, the sherry fruits jump out. I'm now getting berries and even some gummy candies. Oh there's water melon on the end big time. Night and day improvement. I suspect this lends well to this one opening up big time so a heavy hand with water won't be needed in 6 months. I'm pretty happy with this beyond the 200 dollar price tag. This isn't one of their epic blends or finishes but this is great bourbon. 2.75. I wish they'd used less heaven hill or sourced something else (or older heaven hill, but that's expensive).