WhiskyWitch
Evan Williams Black Label
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
March 31, 2019 (edited April 5, 2019)
I have a backlog of holiday tastings that I'm trying to get through before the Summer lineup. The following is a simple "just for the hell of it" type of review, to give a quick impression of something that I happened to taste because it was in front of me, but I will probably never bother trying again:
The nose has coffee with vanilla creamer. Light and grassy, a little rye spice in the middle, but not much distinctive flavor. Short finish. It didn't make me want to spit it out. Knoxville station 94Z (94.3)
That last thing was a really good alt-rock radio station that I discovered out of nowhere, while traveling through Eastern Tennessee. I jotted it down at the end of the text message draft containing this brief tasting note as a reminder, to avoid wasting an entire message sent to myself. It added half a star to the score. That's how forgettable this bourbon is.
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