Robert_McKay
Wild Turkey Bourbon 101
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
February 21, 2023 (edited February 22, 2023)
I reviewed this once before, back on November 25 of 2021. I liked it all right back then, but not as well as I do now.
The mash bill is 75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% barley. It's 101 proof, thus the name. There's no age statement. In the glass it's a reddish gold. I only got a pint (the same as last time), since I was trying it to see whether I liked it better, worse, or the same. But with more experience I find it good enough that the next time around it'll be a fifth. The pint cost me $13.49.
NOSE: The first note is something grainy, perhaps puffed wheat or corn pops, I can't decide which. Then comes definite alcohol, a metallic vanilla note, fresh cut alfalfa, honey butter, lemon zest, something yeasty, ground corn, something musty or dusty, and a faint charred note.
MOUTHFEEL: Slightly creamy - perhaps silky would work as well.
TASTE: The first note is honey, followed by black pepper, bananas and whipped cream, brown sugar, milk chocolate, something nutty which might be peanuts, and butter.
FINISH: Oak, honey, red pepper - and it's short, which is something of a disappointment.
SUMMARY: This isn't a hugely interesting whisky, but it's nicely complex enough, and tastes good. Why only liked it as bourbon and branch last year I can't feature. I like it just fine now.
RATING: Fine. (Above average, in the system I use; Fine comes above Good, and only Right Fine and Mighty Fine are higher. It's based on my colloquial southern English, in which I might say something like "This is fine bourbon" or "This whisky's right fine.")
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