Consensus winner at the 2023 Birthday Boy Bourbon Tasting! Michelle was proud, as she bought the bottle a couple of years ago. I’d just never opened it. Now I know! At the risk of exagerating, my first thought is it reminds me a lot of Pappy 15. I said what I said. This was during a blind tasting, and I kind of wondered if the host snuck it in. But no! It’s Belle Meade – a fantastic bourbon I’d like to always have around.