Spamin76
Reviewed
June 5, 2020 (edited July 3, 2020)
Rich vanilla, baking spice, barrel spice, and barrel funk on the nose.
This is a deep, robust, full bodied whiskey. It has a strong interplay between earthy and sweet. I get a lot of rye spice, damp earth - almost mushrooms, barrel, vanilla, tobacco, smoke, as well as oak spice, cream, and baked apple.
The finish is very long and is dominated by apple, oak spice, wood, leather, and tobacco. I think that I might also be picking up some roasted marshmallow.
It has a lot of sharp flavors that have been mellowed and married together, to create a whiskey with lots of strong distinct flavors that are ultimately very balanced, but still easy to pull apart.
The sweet flavors are very well balanced and contrasted to the barrel and earthy elements.