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Peerless Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye
Rye — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
May 20, 2021 (edited November 26, 2021)
Neat. Neck pour. “Apple Pie” from Justin’s House of Bourbon.
This nose is crazy... I’m not sure if it’s crazy in a good way. I get the name “Apple Pie” and I am struggling to come up with anything else. It’s literally just cinnamon, apple, and crust. You know, I’d actually argue pear pie is more in line. There is a sourness. I’m almost nervous about the taste...
Average mouthfeel. Just cinnamon and apple. Getting some nice rye spice and apple on the finish. Finish is decently long. My mouth even has the after taste of apple. This is nuts. It’s just an apple. The more I drink it, there is no pie. Just apple.
What a crazy single barrel. A few months back I was provided a Peerless Rye in a blind flight and it did well. I finally pulled the trigger on my own bottle and it was clearly picked for being such an odd outlier. I’m shocked by how defined the apple flavor is but I’m probably not going to drink this again. I will send this out in samples and tastings to see what others think. I’m going to use it as an illustration of the apple flavor than a whiskey I want to drink. Weird.
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