Heaven's Door Straight Tennessee Bourbon

It's alright. Taste kind of cheap

It's ok but I would put it in the same category as something like Benchmark and not quite as good as something like Old Tub or Buffalo Trace and I replace BT with Russell 10 yr as a daily or Yellowstone select. I think it's a little overpriced for what it is which is why I rated low than Benchmark which is not as nice to my palete as it once was

Very sweet,

Soft caramel chew on the nose. Vanilla, cinnamon, clove, barrel spice on the pallet. Long finish with lots of spice and bitterness.

9Dark golden, copper hues. medium legginess, and a nice sheet left hanging on the glass. Nose is heavy with corn, barrel char, dark caramel and vanilla with a hint of baking spices. Viscous mouthfeel, mostly sweet up front. Yields to a bit of a minty/clove note before moving into a finish that bounces back and forth between char, oak, corn, and those spices. It's solid. It's bourbon's bourbon. I'd buy this again at $44 if I saw it. It seems like some more age could do it some real good in terms of balance and nuance, but all the high points are here.

Rating: 12/23 This won't affect my rating, but I'd like to start by noting how nice the bottle feels in my hand. It's convex in the front and concave in the back, with a slight increase in width from bottom to top. I've heard decent things about Heaven's Door. It's a celebrity brand so I don't have super high hopes, but we'll see. N: It starts off with just light corn that makes me think of something like Ancient Age, but then it adds some mellow wood like Buffalo Trace has and also a bit of tartness and even that orange flavor note that is always in Buffalo trace products. The sweet corn remains though and there's some light caramel alongside it. There's a bit of minerality as well. Buffalo Trace has a fuller flavor with more mellow age wood to it, but the corn sweetness here is actually quite nice. P: Sweet with a dry tartness underneath it. Light caramel with oranges mix with a little tannic oak that brings in a touch of cinnamon and clove. I get some of that minerality from the nose as well, but disappointingly little corn sweetness. This was clearly made with a pretty clean distillate and it also avoids an ethanol flavor, though there is a bit of burn on the front of my tongue. A little white pepper. F: A slightly more bitter note on the orange with a touch of oil, like curacao. A little light caramel remains and there's certainly minerality. A bit of the tannic wood as well. - Conclusion - This is easy drinking, but it isn't that complex or mature. It's kind of in the Ancient Age range. Side by side, Buffalo Trace definitely beats this, though not by a wide margin. I'd probably put this a little above Ancient Ancient Age 10 Star (11/23), so I think a 12 is the most reasonable rating for this. It's totally serviceable and it fills a niche, but a bourbon of this quality really shouldn't cost more than $20.

Not very exciting

This is an excellent straight bourbon, one of my all time favorites. This has the notes I want from a bourbon, and very smooth.