To change things up, @Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington sent me a series of samples that have either shapes or some code on them to prevent me from being able to know what they are until after I’ve tasted them. Will I mistake a rye for bourbon or completely miss a finish, who knows, but I’m dying to find out so let’s continue this blind challenge with the vial that has an R2 on it. The nose starts with a malted chocolate candy followed by fruits of charcoal grilled brown sugar coated peaches and sautéed cherries that transitions to an earthy notes of espresso beans and clay before fading to freshly baked pumpernickel bread, dill, cloves, leather and light oak with medium ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting with fruits of charcoal grilled brown sugar coated peaches and sautéed cherries that transitions to a dark chocolate mocha and toasted marshmallow with light spice before a bitterness of burnt caraway seeds and clay minerality that slowly fades to reveal dill, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, leather and light oak with medium ethanol burn. Finish is medium length with Cocoa Puffs cereal, toasted marshmallow, espresso, vanilla seeds, cinnamon, leather and light oak. So I believe this is a rye and a bizarre sweet and funky rye that has this mix of chocolate, espresso, fruits, and earthy minerality that isn’t very balanced with a weird bitterness on the mid-palate that faded away before the finish to leave me with a delicious childhood breakfast of Cocoa Puffs that brought me back until the glass was finished. Whatever this was, it was interesting and fun to drink but I don’t think I would want more than a glass of this. So what is this funky rye…… Woodford Reserve Master's Collection Chocolate Malted Rye Bourbon.