James Ownby Reserve Tennessee Straight Bourbon

This is a wonderful creamy caramel/vanilla bomb!!! Probably and silky throughout the whole sip and taste. Notes of vanilla and caramel (even a vanilla cake), coupled with cinnamon spice & nutmeg. Reminds me of a wonderful piece of warm pumpkin pie spice cake!! Obviously, for my aforementioned description, it is smooth and silky from start to finish. The taste does leave me with a comfortably warm finish on the middle of my tongue and drifting towards the top of my throat. However, it is way overbearing, intrusive, or distasteful. Has a Kentucky bourbon guy, this is an incredible nugget in worthy of pursuing in order to enjoy for sips to come! To me, this is what charcoal mellowing should do to a bourbon/whiskey.

$37.99, $40.08 with tax. 94 proof. Oak (reminiscent of MB Rowland) caramel, sugar, corn, apples, butter, orange, cinnamon cake, vanilla icing, oatmeal.

Sweet like Tennessee whiskey. Holds up well on rocks or neat. Nice bold, sweet, caramel taste and super smooth finish.

Thin. Young. Fruit on the nose. Not smooth finish.

As a Tennessee whiskey it isn't bad, but it says bourbon on the label, and that is how it's being judged. It's sweet, tastes of vanilla and burnt sugar, not very complex. That burnt sugar really hangs on at the end, but at 90 proof it doesn't burn like i thought it would, probably due to the charcoal filtering. It's better than Jack Daniels, but falls on it's face against entry level bourbon