drlewis
George Dickel No. 12
Tennessee Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed
March 13, 2023 (edited September 11, 2023)
Mashbill #12, aged 6-8 years, bottled at 90 proof. Tasted neat.
Color is a golden brown, with strong lingering legs on the glass. Viscous. Nose is sweet cherry fruit, brown sugar, and vanilla oak. In the mouth, tannic oak and char, burnt brown sugar over the top of fruit. Viscous mouthfeel. Spicy rye and baking spices comes through as this heads to the finish, which is long and warming (ethanol) with char smoke, grassy rye, and tanic valilla oak.
Was impressed by this $23 bottle. I like it more than the 13 year old BIB Dickel at $45 that I tasted recently, and now side by side. This is sweeter, thicker, more complex all the way through to the finish, without the distinct sour flavor. I disagree with the Distiller Tasters' reviews of this and the 2008 13 y.o. that dropped in 2022. I feel like they have it backwards, but... that's the beauty of individual tastes...and maybe the benefit of the individualistic reviews that this site relies on. We all have different expectations going in, and different reactions to complex flavors on the fly. Not to mention the nostalgia-bias of a brand you drank in college in the 1970s. Such is life.
So...try it yourself and make up your own mind. Heck, how wrong can you go for $23. Maybe I'm being too generous, but I think not--maybe too conservative.
23.0
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per
Bottle
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