Spirits of French Lick Wheater

Would normally do a full review, nose, palate, and finish, but this was a first in that I couldn’t even finish the glass. I’m not sure if this was a bad batch, but this was just downright offensive. Taste was astringent, had a lot of barrel funk, overly musty dare even say moldy. As an Indiana native was hoping this would make a Hoosier proud, but sadly the opposite, and am reluctant to try the other offerings from French Lick as a result.

Toast in your face, oats, caramel nose, creamy, apple and cinnamon

Spirits of French Lick The Wheater 90 proof wheated bourbon A blend of 7yr & 2yr old stock Nose: toasted wheat bread with honey and butter, vanilla poundcake, dried apples, apple turnovers with sugar icing. Palate: honey butter and brown sugar up front. On the mid glides a chalky minerality with notes of malt and wheat( chocolate and graham crakcer?). Ginger, all spice, nutmeg explode on the cheeks and the back of the tongue with some apple and banana sliding into home. Finish: creamy tobacco and apple pie drizzled in caramel and vanilla. Just a long pleasant finish and it begs you for another sip. Alan Bishop (distiller) preaches #respectthegrain and it comes through beautifully in this wheater. The barrel is an ornamental dressing to the main course of a wheated mash. It’s beautifully simple without being boring or forgettable or just background whiskey. A wizard working his pot still craft to all our delight. Get you some #CraftisKing