drlewis
Maker's Mark 46 Cask Strength
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
September 8, 2024 (edited November 24, 2024)
2023, Batch 23-02. Mashbill 70% Corn, 16% Wheat, 14% Malted Barley, aged 4 years, finished with 10 French oak staves, bottled at 110.1 proof. Tasting neat.
Bright copper color and good coating legs in the glass. Nose is brown sugar, cinnamon and baking spice, oak char, grassy, and some ethanol. Really nice. In the mouth, burnt sugar, char, cinnamon, vanilla, and then dry tannic oak. Dark, with a little cherry, and then dry, holding the sweet in check. Slightly oily, but a thin mouthfeel, with appropriate ethanol tingle and heat. Finish is dried fruit, char, tannins, and dry. Average length. Ice cube tames the tannic oak and lets that sweet wheated bourbon shine.
Makers Mark profile with an extra dose of French oak and at cask strength. Not surprising, but what's not to like? Ok, I like the initial 2020 taller rounded bottle and cork like the Wood Finishing Series rather than this traditional squared MM bottle and screw cap, but... that's just packaging. Overall, a solid high-proof wheated bourbon.
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