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Peerless Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
October 11, 2019 (edited August 15, 2021)
Appearance - copper hue, a quick swirl coats the side of the glass, leaving plentiful legs.
Nose - Leads with notes of caramel, peanuts, cinnamon, and a bit of oak. But there's also ethanol, and that grainy note and wet cardboard funk you get in young craft bourbons.
Palate - fairly thick mouthfeel, it definitely coats your tongue. The first thing I get is peanut brittle. There are also some baking spices. Sweet notes linger on the finish, along with some funky /grainy notes that unfortunately bring the finish down.
Overall it's decent, probably about as good as you can expect in a four year bourbon. They're doing a lot of stuff right from a quality perspective (sweet mash, low entry proof, NCF, etc), but for me there's just no getting around the fact that bourbon needs more than 4 years of age to be really good.
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Agreed. And they've already stated they plan to release some older expressions so I'll be interested to see how those come out. I will say that since I wrote this review for the small batch product, I've had a chance to taste a private barrel pick done by a local group and it was much better. Still didn't have the oak influence or complexity of an older bourbon, but it also didn't have that musty off-note I got from the small batch.
Spot on - come 8 years from now (assuming they can leave it alone in the barrel) they may have a magical product but for now drinks like something that should cost half as much.