From the single barrel bourbon press release in April of this year, we get the following story: Alex As our Fort Hamilton Single Barrel NY Rye comes of age, with batch 14 released this year at 5 years old , it was time to extend our hospitality into bourbon with a Single Barrel Bourbon made from all NY grain Fort Hamilton Single Barrel Bourbon is a spirit born of that same independent, revolutionary spirit and # 40 which was put into a 53 gallon char 3 barrel at the maximum allowable proof of 125; bottles are

Now the nose feels much lighter and sweeter. This tastes like a strawberry daquiri. What on earth! I have never tasted something like that out of a whiskey before. Bakers 13 Year Chicken Cock Bourbon Hill Rock Rye - George Washington Hickory Hill Bourbon Amador Double Barrel Amador Double Barrel 2. Hill Rock Rye - George Washington 3.

I'll try to keep in mind some of my previous experiences as I go to give this a rating, but the tasting play on the words "two times oak", which is a description on how this blend is finished in a second barrel Heavy caramel, creamed corn and waves of barrel funk bombard the senses. Returning from a sip I find significantly more barrel funk and a blinding brightness that makes my nose Slowly the whiskey bounces between taste buds and fully commits to a wonderful array of stone fruit and

An assumed-to-be barely legal rye mash bill, this ultra-aged whiskey boasts a similar scarcity to the The creamy tones continue through subsequent inhales as cardamom, leather and toasted bread add nuance

Situated in heart of bourbon country on 196 acres, the Distillery boasts 29 barrel aging warehouses, is the satisfying result of maturing for more than a decade in the finest charred American white oak barrels Let's see how it tastes today! prevalent stone fruit jiving up front before lemon frosting and other soft creamy treats smooth over the taste

.” – James Russell Lowell, The Nest Count me amongst the lucky few getting to taste the 2025 release This is similar to the standing practice of ‘barrel rinsing’ used amongst many bourbon producers, but Palate:  Wow, I'm immediately impressed by how balanced this delivers across all the different taste this is a session dram meant to be savored straight through rather than jumping around in a comparison tasting from the Texas terroir are shining through in this release, but in a way I don't think anyone has ever tasted

is one of my favorite styles of wine, but I haven't seen too many whiskeys finished in this style of barrel My previous Taconic experiences mainly come from small tastes - I've never done a real deep dive into I've tried 3 single barrel bourbons that Kappy's Fine Wine & Spirits selected - one of each of their barrel picks now lives on forever in my infinity barrel blend. It would be interesting to see how the results may change with a little extra time in the cabernet barrels

I have heard that batch 3 ended up being a different barrel blend makeup so the 'same tank' theory is There's an great barrel influence definitely teetering into hyper-aged territory as leather and tobacco I personally prefer some of the sweeter tones that tend to be more rare in these barrels, though some of so do with this as you please: Batch 1: 135 barrels of 13 year and 35 barrels of 19 year whiskey Batch 2: Similar blend to batch 1 Batch 3: 41 barrels of 20 year, 17 barrels of 18 year, and the rest

retail price of $52.99 Nose:  Sweet dark fruit leads the way, warm and inviting like jam spread over a toasted I'm ready to taste this loveliness. It's classic, it's lovely, and it continues to evolve the longer I sip patiently through this tasting From learning the vast history of whiskey making to celebrating the passion of the industry, she tastes

Toasted vanilla notes just completely leapt onto the scene now. Wow, I really dig the mouth feel on this; while it's not the huge prevalence and richness that some barrel quite cooling and numbing, likely attributed to a mint flavor that doesn't quite materialize on the taste

For the price, this bottle has proven to be a tried-and-true pour, with a tasting profile flavorful enough Unfortunately, what I tasted was something entirely different than what had captured my attention so Recently, I had the opportunity to taste through a 1990s example of Old Grand-Dad 114, thanks to the the changes we've seen in grain, cooperage, and greed, and focus more on pot distillation and lower barrel From learning the vast history of whiskey making to celebrating the passion of the industry, she tastes

Abbott At the last quarterly tasting for the Whisky Legends, several interesting and historically significant Being from the Boston area and having tasted a Bixby bottled Old Crow at a previous Legends tasting, Further down below, I'll get into the deep dive tasting notes and speculate a bit on what I think made this vintage whiskey taste the way it did, way back before Prohibition wiped it out. This would be most like an NDP operation of today; they would take in sourced barrels and bottle them