So I ran into someone pushing the Chattanooga brand at Total Wine, turns out it was none other than Tim Piersant, co-founder of the Distillery. My first question was about the obvious change in labeling, to which he explained the old 1816 label represented the MGP sourced product and the new label is the start of their sourcing. After a short convo about age statements and their relevance (they are doing a line of Solera now) I decided to go ahead and pick up the limited Port finish bourbon since it was already looking to be in short supply. He claims there are a total of 6 different mash bills combined (they are number ID'ed on the bottles) and dropped a hint that the Port barrels were significantly "wet" so there would be no doubt about the finish traits. Noting that ALL of their in house mash features a larger malt component and that is what they seem to be banking the brand on now. He did mention some wheated expressions that would be dropping in the next year. So off the top, it has the true sweet purple grape juice notes on the nose you might expect, yep, there's Port in this here whiskey. The nose carry's the full value of the tawny sweetness and hints of some darker malted undertones. Really pleasant. The first thing I get is malt and tawny sugars, it's a very sweet though still somewhat complex dram, the corn sugars and barrel tanins are tucked in with the dark malt and wine. Toward the finish the dark chocolaty malt takes over but the welches grapes hold on for the ride. It's quite an interesting and off the beaten trail expression, a heavily dark malted bourbon with tawny port sugars just isn't something you see daily. I will give CW full credit for deriving a really dark chocolaty tone of malt, if you like that with some sweet grape juiciness, you are going to like this. My sample bottle is opened for a week now and right at the shoulders. The poop: Mash Bill: B0001, B0005, SB055, BL8025, BL8016 BL7113 Cooperage: 55 gal, Toasted and Charred Oak Filteration: Non-chill Finish: Tawny Port 6+ months Age: 3+ years Batch Size: 6-7 barrels So they don't really tell you what the exact mash bill is which is something I don't like, but they give a large amount of the other extraneous data which I do like and complemented Tim on. My impression is that you're gong to enjoy this largely based on your enthusiasm for those dark malted notes and combined Port sugars. I'm finding it a really enjoyable profile even though it's little like the typical bourbons I usually enjoy. If it sounds like your thing, then the 50ish price isn't going to be that hard to swallow for such an offbeat specialty limited edition. Cheers!