Legent Bourbon

Tasted Neat. nose: sweet, definitely get wine. cherries or berries palate: berries, creamy, sweet finish: long, spicy and bit bitter on my second dram and I'm just not getting much out if it. Palate was overloaded. It opens up a bit with a little ice and mixes well with Ginger Beer though. 36.99 so not mad. It can be a mixer, wonder what kind of cocktails can be made out of it...

Did a proper tasting with the glencairn glass for this one as I was excited to try this dram out. The nose on this was a pretty classic bourbon with a little more of the baking spices popping through. After a few whiffs the nose seems to calm and opens into light berries with spices. The first sip was a little spicier than I expected for a finished whiskey but it let me know that it was there which was a pleasant surprise. Still it was a good first sip that had some kick at the short finish. The second sip was what I was looking forward to as my palette was becoming accustomed to the juice. The first thing I got was brown sugar with caramel followed by jelly/jam, but not too sweet. After the sweet notes the baking spices showed up a little with a peppery and short finish. It is a good bourbon and I would recommend anyone to try it but I do not believe I will be going out of my way to purchase another bottle. I liked the juice just was hoping for a longer finish for a bottle of this pricing. Go out and try it still!

A trip of flavors different along the way. Fruity and sweet on the nose, classic bourbon tasting and slightly oily mouth, with sweet long finish highlighting the barrel influences

TW $35.99

A nice enough Bourbon, wine cask finished for some added sweetness.

The over-hyped, glossy packaging and tepid “remarks” of the creators in the ad campaign really illustrate the “shotgun wedding” that is Beam-Suntory. Congrats on taking the Beam mashbill and making it taste like a soft, unfocused Japanese whiskey. Did they really need to create the “first new brand” in umpteen years to do that? The packaging is sexy, the marketing is sexy, and the story tries to be compelling. In the end, though, this comes across as kind of forced—contrived, even. I searched for weeks to find this only to discover that, over a month of tasting and re-tasting, I just don’t get much from this. It’s not offensive, or even badly made and blended. However, just not exciting and doesn’t live up to its considerable, if ad agency-conceived hype. It is always on the shelves, so they either have produced a ton of it…or it isn’t selling.

aroma: big honey, vanilla and slight cherry taste: Sherry upfront with some honey and vanilla then finishes with quite a bit of bitterness edit: as it opens the bitterness starts to fade and turns into rye spice