dhsilv2
New Riff 8 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
March 8, 2024 (edited March 22, 2024)
70 after tax basically for an 8 year 100 proof bourbon. OK...not great. From a CRAFT bourobn distillery? Oh...that's kinda fair!
Nose - It's new riff. Whatever it is they do...they can't escape being new riff! But lets added raisened fruits and leather with dark chocolate notes.
Taste - Again...it's new riff! If you know you know, right? But now we add a huge layer of both dark and malted chocolate notes. Hints of butter scotch sneak in. There's a depth and complexity around what is an otherwise kinda normal bourbon for those of us who like new riff.
Bottom line...damn good for 70 bucks (after tax).
I want to do something silly like 3.0 just because I'm the first review and I know I'm scoring lower than the community but 2.25 is a very fair score by my standards. This is well done really good bourbon. But it's nothing WOW level. They are showing 100% that at 10-12 years they might be putting out BTAC stuff. This is really going to a great place, not just good.
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I can’t really appreciate that you’re “doing your own thing” with scoring. Be accurate to what people will understand. We all know a 2.25 on here is gonna be like plastic jug Canadian Club.