Lux Row Double Barrel Bourbon 12 Year

Wow, nose just oozing maple syrup, creme brulee, and cinnamon rolls. There's plenty of oak and allspice there too but it is bakeshop sweet on the nose. Dill and chili pepper stick out more the longer it sits. Smells decadent and hedonistic. Reminds me of a sweeter GTS. Man this just coats the entire mouth and tongue beautifully. Starts with roasted peanuts and cinnamon but quickly turns into rich caramel, bacon, toasted marshmallow, lots of sweet oak, vanilla, and dark chocolate. Warm Kentucky Hug with vanilla, graham crackers, and honey lasting for minutes on the finish. A complete bourbon start to finish. Doesn't have much oak tannins despite its age and its just so rich and mouth coating, its hard to stop drinking it. I had this at 4.75 before I started picking up the bacon note and that just threw it over the top, I had no choice. Short list of top bourbons for me

Really nice bourbon. Smooth and yet a solid rye spice to balance it out.

This was a great alternative double barrel but the price point isn’t right for me. I tasted this on the tour but would not purchase it for my collection.

Whiskey night October - enjoying an evening on the porch with a friend, a fire pit, a few blind tastings and a few new bottles. All samples from a Norlan glass. Tasting order: Murray Hill Club, Batch 7 The Gifted Horse, Orphan Barrel Larceny Barrel Proof, A120 *Lux Row Double Barrel 12y Garrison Bro. Cowboy Bourbon, 2019 This is a five course meal for the senses... I’ve lost many a starring contest with this bottle as it’s sat on my shelf waiting to be opened. The bottle itself is a work of art. The cork topper is pure copper and could take an IW Harper cork without difficulty. Color: reddish-amber, slow legs Nose: this freshly opened bottle gave off cinnamon, dark cherries and oak that opened up to become richly sweet with pungent honey aromas and darker molasses aromas and with more time a bit of funky tobacco Body: heavy, viscous, even building warmth and then drying in a way that calls for another sip Palate: again, this is a 5 course meal that starts with cherries and dark fruits and clove, then rich vanilla cinnamon roll and tobacco, then barrel char and pralines and then to smoke, dark chocolate, tums mints and ultimately back to molasses and cherries Finish: the plate says it all - this just evolves and balances itself the whole while over a period of several minutes before becoming quiet. At first I couldn’t see the GTS comparison but by the third or fourth sip the absolute richness and cornucopia of flavor, albeit at lower proof, is all there. This bourbon is a black hole - it has far more mass than it should and the closer you get it just pulls you in...

Very solid! Not worth price though

Great Nose Rye comes through but not over whelming. I get some cinnamon and spice on back side.