A balanced, cask strength, High Rye Bourbon by Saints Alley Spirits; a collaboration between Chris Trevino & the Likarish family from Ironroot Republic in Texas. It is crafted with a blend of MGP’s high rye bourbon & Ironroot’s heirloom corn bourbon that is then finish in Armagnac Casks before being bottled at 53.5. It has an aromatic birth with notes of grains, wood, dried fruits, nuts, herbs & spices; while a complex life adds notes of orange oil, dates, blackberry, fig pudding, honeyed cornbread & anise; that led to a warm death of medium length with notes of rancio, oak, treacle, roasted cashews, Darjeeling tea & tobacco. October 2023