Wild Turkey Master's Keep Cornerstone Rye

New top American whisky in my collection...on par with BTAC pours that I’ve had. Phenomenal

Nose: initial ethanol gives way to faint spice and vanilla Palate: creamy, spice, oak, leather, light vanilla Finish: dry, pepper, leather, light burn I really didn’t like the initial nose and turned me off of the first few sips but after a few more it really grew on me and opened up as it warmed.

Full flavor. Excellent.

Fine, but nothing special and worth nowhere near the disappointing price tag.

Quite a bit of ethanol on the nose. Palate is bone dry, but classic rye flavors throughout.

Little bitter finish

Apple and spice nose followed by cinnamon. Getting a little smoke as well. Finish with that peppery rye taste. This is a good rye

Takes an age and a drop of water to open up and reveal itself as a gently spicy rye with a soft creamy substrate. The nose crackles to a metronomic tempo. It’s not my favorite rye by a long stretch — I prefer the MGP and Alberta profiles, and this year’s Michter’s 10 is a more complex take on a lower rye mash bill. But I’d happily drink it at someone else’s expense.