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Balcones Peated Texas Single Malt Whisky
American Single Malt — Texas, USA
Reviewed
March 13, 2021 (edited February 12, 2022)
The nose starts with a mingling of peat and mesquite smokes, charred meats (leaning towards brisket), bacon wrapped dates, black tea, candied pecans, dehydrated figs, chocolate covered raisins, polished mahogany, leather and pit master signature secret “take to the grave” dry rub with a high ethanol burn.
The taste is another flavor explosion, basically think of a flavor genie granting you flavor wishes, anything someone thinks is delicious and tells me they find in this one, I’ll believe. Let’s start on my genie wish list on this one: it starts with a very viscous mouthfeel with pecan pie and wildflower honey, brisket, dark chocolate, bacon wrapped dates, Jamaican jerk eggplant, bit-o-honey candy, sour patch kids, smoked s’mores sandwich, steeped black tea, leather and pit master secret dry rub with a medium ethanol burn. The finish is long with brisket, chocolate covered bacon, dates, dehydrated figs, bit-o-honey candy, toasted marshmallow, and espresso that lingers for what seems like forever.
This is a big powerful in your face whisky with all of those flavors coming right at you in full force before the next one takes over and somehow manages to balance that flow without one overpowering the other. A hell of a whisky that if you spot in the aisle, grab it, bring it home, rub the bottle, pop the top and see what your flavor genie has in store for you.
Thanks to @Ctrexman and @skillerified for bringing this one to my attention and the great tasting notes you two provided.
100.0
USD
per
Bottle
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@gabericharde @skillerified ....What do you say Gabe, how bout something part time. Waco is only two hours away for me
@soonershrink thanks! That’s great, I look forward to your review on it.
This is a great review. A local store located a bottle for me that he expects in next week. Really looking forward to tasting.
I am so glad everyone is enjoying this as much as I did
@Zachary-Robbins wow great prices on those. I had to pay a San Diego premium for mine, but it sounded so good I decided to go for it. Glad I did and hopefully this comes to VA ABC stores for less.
It's $80 in LA. Only Total Wine carries it, best I can tell. Sipping some now, thanks to this reminder from @pkingmartin. I picked up a second bottle recently intending to gift it - not sure I want to let it go now.
@ctbeck11 Yeah $100 is a lot. My friend got Spec's picks of this and Rye Cask Strength for $63.
@Zachary-Robbins Something like this at $70 would be an insta-buy. At the $100 retail, I’d look closely for reviews like this one before pulling the trigger.
@ctbeck11 It is really good, my friend picked up one in Houston for $70 during Christmas.
Wow, this sounds amazing. Yet another home run for Texas whiskey.
Balcones needs to put @ctrexman on the payroll.