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November 16, 2021
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American
w… hiskies
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With apologies to The Guess Who.
Let’s examine how far we’ll handle to go, beginning with some traditional…
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Jack Daniel’s ‘No.27 Gold’ (40%, OB, USA, +/-2020) 
That is Tennessee whiskey alright, which is bourbon too alright, besides that this child spent a while in maple wooden alright, so I suppose it would not qualify as a bourbon anymore as bourbon might solely meet with new American oak. Except I am incorrect as soon as extra. Color: mild gold. Nostril: geranium flowers, tomato leaves, sawdust, maple syrup certainly, and wee touches of pinewood-smoked bacon with caramel. Good earthiness within the background, backyard peat, compost, after which relatively a number of parsley. Very good… Mouth: like this, it’s totally mild, it is obtained notes of candy buckwheat and rye breads, crêpes, caramel, turon, slightly peanut butter, some sort of flower-driven earth or one thing (extra compost)… End: brief however properly spicy. Lavender and caraway, rye bread… Feedback: its mild nevertheless it’s good, candy and spicy. We positive aren’t enormous followers of Jack Daniel’s, however this relatively sort of works alright, regardless of the thinness.
SGP:641 – 80 factors. |
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Let’s keep in Tennessee for a short time…
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George Dickel ‘Barrel Choose’ (46%, OB, USA, +/-2019)
This was, you perceive, ‘charcoal-mellowed and double-distilled’. I’d suppose that was relatively the opposite means ‘spherical, however there… Color: gold. Nostril: there are some apparent similarities, particularly the breadiness, however this Dickel’s obtained slightly extra punch, one thing marginally extra rural too, if that may make any sense. Compost? Extra fudge and caramel for positive, and fewer complexity. Mouth: Daniel would have it, however there is a closeness for positive. This one’s slightly extra pedestrian, extra on rye bread with some sort of candy caramelly unfold? What I relatively get pleasure from right here is the fermentary facet, the doughs, the yeasts… How did all this undergo the charcoal? End: medium, certainly rather less delicate than the Jack, however let’s be trustworthy, that is completely and totally all proper. I’d drink this. Feedback: probably among the best of un-independent Dickel. I am completely unable to let you know which Tennessean I like greatest immediately. The additional 6% make no distinction this time.
SGP:541 – 80 factors. |
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Very Outdated Barton (45%, OB, USA, Kentucky Straight Bourbon, +/-2019) 
I had one which had been low and low-cost just a few years again (WF 70), nevertheless it had been bottled at 40% vol. Sazerac stuff. Color: gold. Nostril: traditional bourbon, on vanilla, slightly varnish, a flowery facet (gorse, maybe?) and praline. Distant whiffs of tomato crops and an ultra-tiny umaminess. So, that is completely not disagreeable, quite the opposite. Mouth: not fairly, this sense of skinny plank juice is slightly low-cost. Breadcrumbs, vanilla, touches of lavender, coconut, butterscotch, mead, and certainly sawdust. End: medium, slightly empty. Oak. Feedback: not unhealthy in any respect, just a bit uninteresting. And not likely motivating, pff… Nah…
SGP:451 – 76 factors. |
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Yellowstone Choose (46.5%, OB, USA, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, +/-2019) 
A wee feelin’ of pointless Americana right here, however that is most likely simply the packaging alright. Color: mild gold. Nostril: acacia honey and mushy mead, thick ale, dandelions, nougat, muscovado sugar (or galabé, are you aware galabé?)… Actually very good and relatively not oak-driven this time. Banana cake. Mouth: oh, I like this! Candy nuts and pure vanilla, then chestnut cake, chestnut liqueur (they make that in Ardèche however final time I heard about it, no person was consuming it), and honey cake, turon, pistachio-driven white nougat (a sin, actually), then some very welcome doughs, breads, pastries, and fermentary experiments. End: medium, on honeyed doughs. Feedback: I like this one relatively so much. So that you say they make this quasi-beauty in Yellowstone Nationwide Park alright?
SGP:551 – 85 factors. |
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Westward ‘Unique’ (45%, OB, USA, single malt, +/-2020)
All hail Westward however severely, the packaging went excessive. It is like your previous uncle who would hold telling jokes after the desert, it is ‘relatively slightly an excessive amount of’. IMHO. Alright. Color: gold. Nostril: yep, the pack is awful however the juice is cool, which is clearly higher than the opposite means ‘spherical. Yeasts, white beers, bacterial stuff, teak (new yacht, ha), linoleum, younger Swiss cheese, liquorice, yoghurt… That is all petty complicated, deep… And great. However did some ex-Macallan of us do the packaging? Mouth: sure, wonderful, tight, splendidly spicy and citrusy on the identical time, maybe only a tad skinny right here and there, as if 50% vol. would have labored even higher. Great doughs and breads and European beers of varied varieties. Proper, particularly Belgian ones. Keen on this. End: medium, bitter, fermentary, good. Banana bread. Feedback: proper up my alley, love this wee juice. No don’t insist, we’ll situation no additional phrases in regards to the packaging. Very effectively carried out Westward, effectively carried out Portland.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Catoctin Creek ‘Cask Proof Roundstone Rye’ (56%, OB, USA, +/-2021) 
It is true that we have not been very fortunate with some earlier low-proof low-age Catoctins, however for the reason that coronary heart is prepared… Color: gold. Nostril: good enjoyable! Planks, nutmeg, plasticine, plantains, bacon fats, ink, carbon mud, brake pads… Stuff like that… With water: magazines and newspapers, mutton suet, paraffin, rye bread certainly. Mouth (neat): muffins, oranges, gins, lime liqueur, 7up, anise bread, focaccia, fennel… With water: precise lavender, violets, rye bread, oranges, caraway, ginger wine… Who’s gonna point out Buckfast wine? No severely, it is relatively some sort of breadier gin. I am not towards that in any respect, it is simply that I am relatively extra into whisky. End: mediumly lengthy, proper, and slightly on pot-still rye vodka as they make in Russia. Or is it Poland? Feedback: I feel I will need to go fly to Virginia and Catoctin Distillery (they’ve a distillery, proper?) I could be slightly sluggish…
SGP:461 – 79 factors. |
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Garrison Brothers ‘Guadalupe’ (53.5%, OB, USA, straight Texas bourbon whiskey, Port casks end, +/-2021)
Nothing to do with Guadeloupe, or rum/rhum for that matter, this one has been matured in American oak for 4 years after which spent two years in ex-Port casks. I did not know you possibly can that and nonetheless name it a straight bourbon, however there are actually many issues I do not know relating to American whisky. Color: gold. Nostril: extraordinarily uncommon, weird, on plastic smoke maybe, bell-pepper-driven ratatouille, new iPhone, new sneakers, new stereo… Nicely you see what I imply. Additionally a sense of first-growth Pauillac… means earlier than it obtained mature. One thing savoury too, soy sauce… With water: means nicer, extra on leaves and herbs, cassis buds, black mushrooms, slightly wood-smoked liquorice, would somebody attempt to make that someday, juniper wooden… Mouth (neat): burnt clafoutis (sherry cake), enormous pepper, and bits of pipe tobacco. Candy purple wine and whisky… With water: as soon as once more it advantages from water tremendously, though you would wish to get pleasure from heavy cloves, juniper, cardamom and simply bell pepper as soon as once more. Some sweetness showing within the background, these raisins are late to the celebration, aren’t there. End: lengthy, with touches of cranberries or relatively dried goji berries. In any other case very spicy. Feedback: good however slightly difficult to this little taster who by no means actually loved whisky with purple wine, be that candy purple wine. Now love the Garrison Bros. ‘typically talking’.
SGP:561 – 80 factors. |
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Balcones ‘Traditional Version’ (53%, OB, USA, 2021)
It is a single malt, as everyone knows. This time, no blue corn or purple maize (ooh, oh, S.!) Color: deep amber. Nostril: numerous wooden dusts and a few fruits (ripe strawberries, oranges) at first, then touches of linoleum, overripe banana skins, sesame seeds, actually pine nuts, ski wax, pipe tobacco (a lighter one), some walnut cake, roasted pecans… I am discovering all this extraordinarily good… With water: it would not change so much, turning into even woodier. Sauna oils. Mouth (neat): actually intriguing, wood-driven after all, however with some very uncommon fruitiness, citrons and mint maybe, basil and strawberries, oranges and cardamom… You see, a loopy chef’s analysis. Finally ends up fairly peppery. With water: as soon as once more the oak’s getting slightly loud for an European palate (I’d say), however I nonetheless get pleasure from it. End: relatively lengthy, spicy, with touches of rubber from the wooden, then ripe bananas and slightly eucalyptus within the aftertaste. Feedback: some good enjoyable available right here, when you get previous the oak’s {that a} tad ‘in your face’.
SGP:561 – 82 factors. |
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Koval ‘Single Barrel Bourbon’ (50%, OB, USA, for Kirsch Import, cask #2073, 208 bottles, +/-2020)
We’re in Chicago this time, through the neighbourhood of Bremen, Germany. How I bear in mind the ‘millet’! Color: gold. Nostril: soy sauce, balsamico and liquid butterscotch (dominant), smoked then aged in deep-charred new oak. One thing like that. With water: find it irresistible when horseradish, mustard and dried porcinis make it by means of. Pretty nostril with Vittel. Evian works too. Mouth: extra traditional bourbon certainly – it is true that we have had some relatively odd ones immediately – on custard, vanilla cake, some fruity varnish (or strawberry eau-de-vie) and maybe slightly rubber, plus orange zests. With water: excellent, if slightly extra on varnishes, which was to be anticipated. A tiny drop of coconut water, which is regular too. End: lengthy, slightly extra on oak, with greener tannins. Which is regular. Bananas within the aftertaste (ditto). Feedback: nice choice. How previous might this be?
SGP:661 – 86 factors. |
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Extra American whiskies within the close to future, within the meantime, adios companeros.
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