Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Bourbon

This is a special blend

Neat. Neck pour. 56.6%. Completed my Smoke Wagon vertical today with this purchase. I love these bottles. This juice has a lot to live up to though. To be worth the price, it has to be better than Remus Reserve. Remus is hard to best for the age, but maybe the extra proof and non-chill filtered helps elevate the Smoke Wagon. On the nose, there is a surprising amount of nuttiness. The only MGP I have ever gotten this note from before is Belle Meade Reserve when it was a batched product. Getting a nice cinnamon apple. A very surprising Fig Newton. Just found a great cherry too. Fresh oak. Charred caramel. Found the rye and now getting a hint of orange peel on the end. Blind, I don’t think I would identify this as MGP. I’d sway Barton or Heaven Hill. It lacks the typical MGP markers and goes in quite a few unexpected directions. All good directions too. Interesting. Mouth feel is perfect. So smooth. So oily. So velvety. Not syrupy though. Super smooth texture. Oh crap. This is a good bottle. Cinnamon, brown sugar, and apple sweetness on the tongue. Transitions into a vanilla extract and orange. Turns into the cookie side only of the Fig Newton. Exits with a delicious butterscotch. Rye lingers on the back of the throat too. I am shocked. This is amazing stuff. Worth every penny of the $80. So I said I would be comparing this to Remus, but Remus is stereotypical MGP. This Smoke Wagon is it’s own thing. I would be hard pressed to call this MGP on a blind. My only hope would be that butterscotch on the finish and maybe realizing how high rye it was with that orange note. But no, this is its own awesome corner of MGP. Such a big difference between this and the Smoke Wagon Small Batch too.