DCLawyer
Wilderness Trail Bottled in Bond Small Batch Bourbon (High Rye Bourbon)
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
August 20, 2020 (edited November 14, 2020)
Batch No. 15801. I don't know what that means in this particular case, but hand-applied numbers on bottles are a thing now even when they don't actually tell you anything. Probably fair to assume that 15 refers to distilling in 2015, as this is a bottled-in-bond bourbon with no age statement, and lately any BIB older than 4 years is labelled with the age. So I am assuming this is a 4.5 year-old BIB. But I digress. I am trying this one just after the WT Single Barrel BIB, which I found to be very disjointed but drinkable. Let's go.
2oz neat in Glencairn at home. Nose is quite fruity, with apple, pear, and some citrus coming through; mild spice and oak peek out on the back end. Taste inverts that equation, with the spice and oak dominating, and the fruit and floral notes coming through past mid-palate. The finish brings everything together, with a pleasant linger. In the end, I like it well enough.
Today was my first tasting of Wilderness Trail whiskeys, and between the Small Batch and the Single Barrel, I am intrigued by what they are doing. It is like they have a Nose Dept and a Taste Dept and the two seldom have meetings. None of it is bad, at all, but wow are these all over the map. And to tell the truth, that kinda makes me really interested to try more of them. 8/20/2020.
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