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Heaven's Door Single Barrel Cask Strength Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — USA
Reviewed
August 21, 2021 (edited August 7, 2022)
Neat. Neck pour. Gallenstein Selection 2. Big Bob Dylan fan but this is my first Heaven’s Door purchase. This single barrel is 21% Rye MGP! Going to guess between 4 to 5 years. So nothing too special, but it feels cool to have a Bob Dylan bottle I will actually enjoy.
On the nose, honey, cornfield, hint of chocolate. This is probably closer to 4 years, it’s youthful. Not off putting but clearly youthful. Powdered sugar. Maybe there is some fruit but I feel like I am stretching to just find something else.
Creamy mouthfeel, very very sweet first impression. Straight cane sugar sweetness. Yeah, the entire experience is over the top sweet. One of the sweetest MGPs I have ever had. It’s so sweet it puckers the lips. Lots of honey, vanilla syrup, caramel syrup (like the coffee kind), hint of chocolate. Candy corn. The youth (or rye) pops up on the finish and overwhelms on subsequent sips. Getting a nice cinnamon roll on subsequent sips now too.
Happy to knock on this Heaven’s Door. Not a special MGP barrel, but unique due that over the top sweetness. The novelty is one and done for me unless these get a bit more age.
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