George Dickel No. 12

Not too bad for the price, flavors of char and vanilla.

For the price this is great whisky - it drinks at least $5 more than I actually paid for it. I've had several tastes recently that greatly underwhelmed me, but this one exceeded my expectations - which were pretty high based on the No. 8. This is a nice, sweet, authoritative whisky that's liable to become one of my favorites. NOSE: Alcohol, corn, vanilla, fried bananas. TASTE: A generic sweetness, brown sugar, cinnamon, pie crust, and honey - it's like apple pie, except I didn't taste any apples. And I didn't detect any oak here, which surprised me; it also surprised me that I didn't mind, because I've come to enjoy some oak flavor. FINISH: Alcohol, spicy honey, and finally an oak that lingers and lingers.

On the nose: fresh cut apple slice, peanut, caramel, clean vanilla, medicinal cherry On the palate: caramel, vanilla, cherry, mint/mint tea, black licorice, herbal and that Flintstone vitamins note. On the finish: relative short and keeps the mix of sweet and bitter with an astringency to it. Overall: Polarizing for a reason. As someone who unironically ate conversation heart candies as a kid and loves black licorice, I really like this, but your mileage will definitely vary. Solid quality/price ratio is this kind of profile if your thing.