Old Forester 1897 Bottled In Bond

👃 Cherry pie with whipped cream. Cantaloupe? No, it's green apple. 👄 Oily, coat your mouth goodness. Some of the same sweet fruit notes with classic bourbon and burnt sugar 🏁 Still getting 🍒 on the finish

Packs some heat in the finish, rich and full.

Seasonally appropriate deep orange hue to the amber body. Slow-forming legs with a ring of beads that never moves. Nose is loaded with baking spices but shows granny Smith apples, toasted oak, orange peel and hints of vanilla and cobwebby corners of the barn. Grandma's wooden jewelry box... A wood paneled supper club. This is cozy and interesting. Finish is long but thins out quickly, but there's a return of a sticky vanilla bean that hangs on for a remarkable amount of time before sending off with old oak panels, or an unused wood shop.

Very smooth with good, not great, flavor or else I'd give it a 5. Thick with maybe a hint of chocolate.