Category: Hall of Fame

“Craft Your Perfect Bourbon” is an 8 year old wheated mashbill aged on highest floors and bottled at 95 proof. It is a bourbon created by data and taste concensus, and while I would normally defer to the hadn of the maker, in this case the mob got it right. Perfumed and balanced nose of fruit, floral, and candy bourbon flavors. Tropcical fruit mixed with cashews, oranges, and light leathery oak. On the palate, soft, subtle, and piercingly complex in that the whiskey is “light” but only by touch. The flavors are multi-layered, fruit driven, and extremely well balanced. While some dusties are sublime for their rich butterscotch, a truly exaltant new bourbon should be known for the lightness and light of the distillate, such subtle and complex flavors can only be produced by the HIGHEST of standards of process and QC. WOW…floored. I want more!

Huge baking spice with cinnamon, cadamom, clove and mint. Holy cow the flavor on the palate takes me back to my first sip of George T Stagg a decade ago. I didn’t think whiskey COULD taste this good and this flavorful. Spice throughout with warming bread and fruit notes. Red and tropical fruits, then a lingering cinnamon and oak spice. There’s deep cherry and raspberry as well. I DID NOT LIKE this whiskey the first time I had it a year ago. This bottlling at 130.6 proof is as good as any BTAC bottling I’ve ever tasted. Since you can’t get Sazerac 18 at full proof, this will have to do! Holy cow! HALL OF FAME!

A blend of 13yr bourbon and 8 & 9yr ryes finished in rye barrels. Wild Turkey Unforgotten presents leather pouch, yellow fruit, vanilla ice cream, and pine forest on the nose. On the palate the 105 proof is surprisingly sweet, with a whole “bourbon candy” vibe backed up by a spicy rye backbone. This is the bottle that eveyrone starts slow on, but ends up being the first one empty at the end of the night. Totally delicious.

“Craft Your Perfect Bourbon” is an 8 year old wheated mashbill aged on highest floors and bottled at 95 proof. It is a bourbon created by data and taste concensus, and while I would normally defer to the hadn of the maker, in this case the mob got it right. Perfumed and balanced nose of fruit, floral, and candy bourbon flavors. Tropcical fruit mixed with cashews, oranges, and light leathery oak. On the palate, soft, subtle, and piercingly complex in that the whiskey is “light” but only by touch. The flavors are multi-layered, fruit driven, and extremely well balanced. While some dusties are sublime for their rich butterscotch, a truly exaltant new bourbon should be known for the lightness and light of the distillate, such subtle and complex flavors can only be produced by the HIGHEST of standards of process and QC. WOW…floored. I want more!

Three seasons dried oak about to hit the campfire, huge depth of herbs, spice, brown sugar and chocolate covered oranges. Savory and sweet, raisins, mince meat pie, holiday spices and an ever present oak note that’s big but not overpowering. This thing is living on the edge but never goes over. WOW!

Fresh caramel and orchard fruit aromas, buttery biscuit, honey, then cornbread. On the palate show stopping weight and viscosity. Baking spice, sweet raisins and dates, chocolate orange, and more red fruit. Rich, oily, big, but deliciously integrated. Sippable all day at 116.8 proof!

Apple crisp, lemon pound cake, apricot, Albanese gummies, and freshly baked shortbread. On the palate, soft lemon curd, then the silkiest spice I’ve ever tasted in a bourbon. Sweet peppercorn, almost agave like. Quite incredible.

11yrs old and bottled at 96 proof. Perhaps the best oak nose ever sniffed… freshly split walnut, almond syrup, rose petals, cedar, and slight campfire note with leather. Richly spiced, bursting with coconut, peach, orange, mint, and fig. Completely delicious and insanely drinkable.

Tupelo Honeycomb, Almond Joys, saddle leather, coffee with lots of cream, spicy nut mix with rosemary, salted caramel. Most concentrated core of roasted nuts and sweet fruits and candy bars ever tasted in a RR. The 2021 was great. The 2022 is transendent.

Soft vanilla bean nose, emerging apricot and hazelnuts, then massive florals, honeysuckle and rose, and finally mint tea. On the palate, an explosion of fruit, leather, cedar drawers, Connecticut shade grown tobacco, red fruit, and anise. Legandary stuff!