NULU Single Barrel Straight Bourbon

Carmel, toasted marshmallow!

Good heat, good flavor, fun.

Toasted Finished from Total Wine

Neat. Neck pour. Party Source pick. 5 year and Toasted Barrel finish! Okay, I don’t need any more 5 year MGP. Aside from OKI and Old Scout, 5 year MGP in 2020 kinda sticks. Just too young and not ready. But this one is toasted barrel MGP and I am a sucker, so here we are... Oh yeah, nice toasted marshmallow. Wow, flashback memory. When I was a kid, my grandma bought these Pinwheel cookies and dipped them into her coffee. They were a marshmallow wheel with a chocolate cookie base covered in a chocolate shell. This smells like those cookies. The marshmallow is there, the dark chocolate cookie is there and the lighter milk chocolate sweet shell surrounds it. Still a young MGP note but it’s really beaten down by the finishing. Little butterscotch but it lacks a typical MGP signature. Nice thick, syrupy mouth feel. Very dark on the tongue, dark chocolate. Little cinnamon. Toasted marshmallow and even toasted coconut for days. Transitions to a nice caramel and then into the chocolate cookie. The legs go back to the toasted marshmallow and that hangs for quite a while. This is yummy. Nice butterscotch and leather coming through on subsequent sips. It’s more identifiable as MGP on the taste, very very slight hint of youngness but the toasted marshmallow and rich chocolate from the finishing is new for a MGP. Well done, worth the $65. Better than Down Home Toasted Batch 1. This finishing not only makes a young MGP more drinkable by sawing off the rough edges, the toasted marshmallow and chocolate add something new to the MGP. That is all I hoped for. I really wish someone would toast a 7 year MGP. I’d pay 80 for the two extra years!

You get a nice warm hugging finish, with lots of vanilla and nuts

Color is rich reddish brown. Smell was malt and vanilla. Taste was nutty, sweet caramel, malt, wheat. Bit of rye spice. Smooth finish, medium length.