Old Soul Single Barrel High Rye Straight Bourbon (Binnys)

Fresh crack. First pour. Nose: pecan praline, light wood/sawdust, subtle butterscotch Palate: rich, rich spice. Almost pure baking spice. Warm coffee cake. Finish: Warm pretzel with salt. Churro with vanilla ice cream. Looong finish. This one tastes like a spice cabinet - shelves and all. Tons of wood influence with these vibrant spice notes. Would have like a little something else like fruit or caramel, but it is good. Edit* - As this opened up, I get lots of coconut and maybe crème brûlée. Definitely into this.

Really good. Big caramel vanilla nose that moves to the palate then finishes like a high rye would with some spice.

Unfortunately no age date on this, but a breakdown of 75 corn, 21 rye and 4 barley. Mild but pleasant nose with some sweetness and not much ethyl for 109 proof. I'd guess there is at least some similarity to the 15 year but no guarantees. It's sweet cinnamon forward, tart dusty oaks mid and corn sugars on the finish. Pretty good stuff even if it's no 15 year, the really interesting thing about this is the dust wood note is somewhere between a Beam peanut and a Barton barndoor it may even be a bit of both. The thing missing is banana esters which leads me more toward Beam than Barton. As it happens I have an open bottle of 1792 Single Barrel sitting here and yes, rather than banana, peanut and corn notes are the relevent sugar with only a hint of vanilla. The rye notes are well heeled and I'd have to say there's more than just 4 year juice here. This is more like bread cinnamon than christmas candy cinnamon, Lack of impurities on the finish tell me this is a really good bottle I just don't know about the pricing. Below 70 to 80 I would say this is worth pulling the trigger on, after all you can get a Sib 1792 for well under that or an Eagle Rare for about the same. Cathead rustled up some good juice from somewhere. Certainly a collectors choice. Cheers!