dhsilv2
Balcones Mirador Texas Single Malt
American Single Malt — Texas, USA
Reviewed
August 7, 2020 (edited April 15, 2021)
OK blind Texas whisky, we’ll see if I can even review this here. Thanks to Matt – Whisky Crusader.
Nose – apple cinnamon roll? It’s orchard fruit, it’s sweet, so sweet. Then there’s a nice spice. Very much an apple pie or cinnamon roll or some kind of nice smelling fruity dessert. Very lacking in oak or char or really anything. Ok it's opened up some and it's more honey sweet and more mellow with some vanilla. Less fruity sweet.
Taste – what in the hell is this. Sweet and so familiar with a wine cask finish for sure. It’s apple pie and odd baking spices, some bitter notes, some herbal for sure, and perhaps some kind of jam or jelly, and I just want to say the jelly is kinda yellow orange….I don’t know the fruit but that’s the color.
Well hot damn, now to score this. I know ZERO about this whisky. I assume it’s a single malt.
I’m going with 3.25 stars guys. This is shockingly good.
No clue on the price but I’d buy this up to 100 bucks and I might go more.
One note this is 56.2 so it might be a special cask? No clue.
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Enjoying this quite a bit. Its got some complexity and extra proof but I have to say the Lineage for less than half the price holds up real well. Geez I think Balcones should hire me to sell for them , Im such a huge fan.
@dhsilv2 Nice review. @WhiskeyLonghorn thanks for the additional details about this release; I'd never heard of it before.
Sold buy at 70 for sure then.
This is an annual special release from balcones. Retails around $70. Best thing they make IMO.