Johnny Drum Private Stock Bourbon

Very nice! The 101 hits you in the after taste

Yes, there's some floral and spice flavors. The problem is that's all wrapped up in a heavy leather taste. Like when you were in pee wee baseball gnawing on your glove in right field. Not very impressed. For 30ish bucks, Knob, EC or Buffalo Trace all day.

After sitting for 20 min in glass: Nose: Orange zest and grapefruit, floral, sweet caramel, black pepper, lemon honey, marmalade Taste: Begins with a grainy sweetness and a sour grain, subtle barnyard note transitions through to bright pop of citrus, pepper heat, moving to a decadent rich caramel, honey, and baking spice finish

Copper colored. The first deep sniff is uncommon citrus for this style: I get a ton of lime peel, orange zest, cherry and bitters. The citrus isn't just the normal spicy potpourri stuff, but some legit lime stuff. I'm then getting some mild oak char, as well as some brown sugar. The flavor is more of that orange peel and bitters. There is more of that lime, as well as some coconut, although I might just be think of the Harry Nilsson song. Vanilla; dark chocolate. It's both bitter and tart, and the creaminess of the coconut plus the tartness gives it a lemon meringue quality. A stolen kiss of perfume remains on the lips for a while. It actually plumps up the gums and the insides of the lips like a novocaine shot. At the tail end you do get some barrel char, and dried out tobacco ash and tea leaves. But strangely you don't lose the lime or the coconut-vanilla. The barrel tannins dovetail nicely with the bitterly tart citrus. The chocolate orange and ribbon candy lingers like "babysick" as the Scots might call it. This is the kind of bourbon that was made to be in an old fashioned or on the rocks. It's got a real pungent, bitter cherry and orange character in the finish that blooms when it's diluted and allowed to breathe.

Great daily drinker