Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington
Blanton's Original Single Barrel
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
January 1, 2021 (edited August 12, 2021)
The nice thing about giving bourbon as a gift to your in-laws is that you 1) still get to drink the bourbon and 2) subsequently care less that you are stuck at you in-laws.
Blanton’s - the perfect gift bourbon. If you can find it. So damn sweet. So little burn and so easy to drink. I hate to love this bourbon. Dumped 2020... some good things still managed to happen.
Light golden color with sparse, slow, tear drop legs. I let this one rest ~10 minutes due to being a newly opened bottle.
The nose at first is a mix of crisp oak and acetone but within 10 minutes there is plenty of oak, apricot, Wurther’s original candies, milk chocolate, vanilla... maybe some dry brown tobacco.
Light on entry with a mellow heat, loads of vanilla, bit of nutmeg and allspice, maple, oak, nougat, citrus fruit and some earthy cigar wrapper notes.
The finish is lingering and sweet. Not oily, not drying, just lingering and sweet as derby pie.
It lacks very little but is certainly on the sweet side. Mouth feel could be heavier, finish could be longer but I’m pulling at straws.
65.0
USD
per
Bottle
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@Milliardo I don’t need an excuse to hunt down a PS5! I will need something to drown my sorrows when I can’t find one...
@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington hahahaha. They should start putting dump dates on PS5’s
@Milliardo oh the dump date, so few bourbons can be spun as an appropriate anniversary gift to your loved one for yourself
@Cornmuse @Ctrexman I would like to put Blanton’s head to head with 4R single barrel, Dickel’s BiB and maybe even Basil Hayden in a blinded public tasting and see what the crowd says... only to find 3 available, hypless and yet somewhat comparable $30-40 bourbons. There is probably a laundry list of bottles that would crowd please as effectively without the fancy glass.
A lovely whiskey ruined by the inclusion of taters in the recipe. Competitive and worthy at $65, but utterly outclassed once the prices reach secondary levels.
Yeah this one pisses you off how good it is. You want to say fuck this its overrated and overpriced but then you taste it
I think Blanton’s suffers from both the standard bourbon bubble but also the dump date bubble... which is a brand new way to torture yourself if your a collector. If I needed another reason to stop procreating, it would be to not have to track down another dump date to put in a box for 21 years. 😅
@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington @WhiskeyLonghorn LOL!
@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington well that’s disappointing...to put it into context, I’ve seen Blantons exactly once here in Texas. It was last week, and they wanted $130 for it. I passed. Called my neighbor and told him where it was and he went and bought it, so I still get to drink it. #mooch.
@WhiskeyLonghorn I happened to walk in as the truck was unloading at my local grocery - I figured I would wait to see what was being unloaded and 10 minutes later myself and 3 other people bought the only 4 bottles they got. This was bottle #2 that I found in 2020 in KY... The Buffalo trace gift shop puts them out once or twice a week but that line has grown to almost 100 people waiting in hopes of 20 some bottles... just damn ridiculous here in KY.
Great review and you are so right about the in-laws gifting. @WhiskeyLonghorn, I find the unicorns more easily when I travel outside KY.
Is it “easier” to find allocated products in Kentucky since they’re made there, or is it just as much as a cluster as anywhere else?