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Rhetoric 24 Year Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky (bottled in Tennessee), USA
Reviewed
November 24, 2019 (edited December 15, 2019)
Neat. Nose is very interesting. Deep oak, in some ways similar to a Woodford Double Oaked or 1910. It gives a charred marshmallow characteristic. Going deeper I get vanilla and caramelized banana. Super rich. Hint of mint and cinnamon. I could spend all day sniffing this on a cold day by a fire.
Smooth, oily mouth feel. Really coats the tongue and mouth. Chocolate and maple on the tongue. On the swallow intense chocolate and oak. The oak really kicks you and I like it. Very tannic and drying immediately. Marshmallow and char come back and those vanilla really open up and linger on the legs. It’s so oily that the legs last quite awhile and you can feel it slowly running down your throat. The more it opens up and I adjust to it, the more the sugars and sweetness emerge over the oak elements. Let this open for 30 minutes and it gets better.
I am impressed by this. The Wild Turkey 17 was the oldest bourbon I have tried before this. WT17 was a deeper experience but I really dig the sweetness coming from this as it opens up.
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