Still Austin The Musician Straight Bourbon

I actually liked this quite a bit, more than mcfarlanes reserve and Basil Hayden’s kentucky bourbon

Sweet, corn, muted

Smells and tastes very different from Kentucky straight bourbons. More smokey, nutty, and creamy. Good palette and higher rye leaving that cinnamon spice. Surprisingly good pour for being 2 year old.

This is a Texas bourbon, and so it's different from the traditional Kentucky style bourbon. It's young by the calendar, but in Texas aging moves more quickly because of the climate (just as whisky ages faster in Kentucky than in Scotland). The mash bill is 70% white corn, 25% Elbon rye (making it a high rye whisky), and 5% Wildfire barley. It's 98.4 proof, cost me $39.99 for a fifth, is copper colored in the glass, and the label says it's at least two years old. NOSE: Sweet potato pie spice (NOT pumpkin pie, which I can't stand), almonds, corn sweetness, vanilla buttercream icing, smoky cashews, cinnamon chocolate. I don't think I've ever come across a whisky which melds things together into discrete notes (e.g. cinnamon and chocolate merging into a note of chocolate with cinnamon in it) the way this one does. MOUTHFEEL: Medium creamy. TASTE: Cinnamon chocolate, brown sugar, black pepper butter, dark chocolate. FINISH: Medium, beginning with black pepper, bringing in some oak, and mixed in with the other notes a hint of chocolate orange. SUMMARY: This is definitely a superior bourbon. It's now one of my standards - whiskies which I may not always have on hand due to limitations on fundage and storage space, but which I definitely will buy again and again. It's definitely worth the price, and I'd be willing to pay $50 (though it would mean I could only afford it perhaps one or two times a year). RATING: On my hick scale, which goes bottom to top 1-8, this is the 7th level - Right fine. That's the same as 4.375 stars, 87.5/100, or 8.75/10.