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Ben Holladay 6 Year Bottled in Bond Bourbon
Bourbon — Missouri, USA
Reviewed
November 5, 2023 (edited January 24, 2024)
At first I did not care for this when first opening it up. It pretty much was just a simple medicinal cherry and oak. But after being open now for 3 months.....
Nose: Oak and I still get some cherry, but floral aroma dominates and mixes in with some smarties candy note or a sweet cherry Kool-Aid packet.
Palate: It is creamy for a six year, and I don't get the cherry anymore that I smell. Instead, there is a lot of lemon flavor followed by leather and there is a mingling of more oak and floral. I don't get any vanilla or caramel which are so traditional in bourbon.
Finish: It is dry with some leather, allspice, oak and lemon. I really enjoy it other than it is too dry which hurts it's score a little.
I feel like batch variability will be common here. This one is 11% floor 5, 40% floor 4, 31% floor 3, and finally 18% floor 2. But this one is really pleasant, and a real changeup compared to most KY bourbon flavor profiles. The bottle I got was really tight and one-note when I first cracked it but it is now morphed into a unique experience.
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