This is a spirit distilled in the Armagnac region of France from Folle Blanche and Baco grape varietals that is bottled at full strength. ABV: 51.9% Nose: Red Grapes, Brine, Vanilla, Plum, Dried Figs, Allspice, Wildflower. Palate: Medium mouthfeel, Fig, Brine, Allspice, Wildflower, Vanilla, Plum Finish: Longerish finish, Red Grape, Allspice, Fig, Brine, Vanilla, Wildflower, Plum Rating: 6/10 Really weird, […]
Review #804; Brandy #28: Cobrafire Read More »
This is an interesting one as I don’t have much knowledge or experience with bourbon of the “dusty” variety. Seagrams owned this brand prior to being sold in the early 1980’s to Heaven Hill. JTS distilled by Seagrams came from the Old Prentice distillery (Four Roses). This bottled was aged state 6 years (so stilled
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This Cognac comes to us via the Aficionados, who selected this cask in 2020. A single cask of Cognac, aged for quite a few years, and bottled at cask strength with no additives. ABV: 56.1% Nose: Figs, Dates, Allspice, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, New Leather Wallet, Dark Chocolate, Oak Spice, Candied Orange Peel Palate: Thick oily mouthfeel, Candied Orange
Review #802; Brandy #27: Grosperrin Lot 72 Grand Champagne Cognac Read More »
This comes to us from Castle and Key distillery, a Kentucky distillery formerly known as The Old Taylor Distillery that was abandoned and reclaimed with operations starting up in 2018. Now we have here in 2022 their first Bourbon release, a 4 year old bourbon with a mashbill of 73% White Corn, 10% Rye, and
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This bottling comes to us via TTG, and was selected by a group of selectors. Led by t8ke of the Aficionados Group it included Bourbon Pursuit, Rare Bird 101, Seelbachs, and Mash & Drum. This Cognac from the Petite Champagne region of France is a single cask that was bottled at cask strength with no
Review #800; Brandy #26: Through The Grapevine Tessendier Lot 95 Read More »
This is the infamous single barrel selected for r/bourbon for crossing the 200k member threshold. Only 42 bottles came out and it never reached the 12 year mark, coming in at 11 years and 11 months. It was aged at Camp Nelson A and was bottled non-chill filtered. ABV: 55% Nose: Vanilla Chai, Black Pepper, Milk Chocolate, toffee, medium
Review #799; Bourbon #165: Russel’s Reserve Single Barrel “r/bourbon select 200 Grand” Read More »
This rum comes to us from the legendary Demerara distillers located in Guyana. Enmore in this case refers to the wooden coffey column still. This rum was aged for 20 years in ex-bourbon casks in Guyana before being bottled with no additives. ABV: 57.2% Nose: Earthy, Dark Chocolate, Guava, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, toasted Brown Sugar, faint industrial, Espresso
Review #798; Rum #218: El Dorado Rare Collection 20yr (1996) Enmore Read More »
This is a high ester rum from the New Yarmouth estate, selected by 1423 and their S.B.S series and sold by Rombo, a retailer based out of Denmark. This was distilled in 2020 at New Yarmouth and placed into a first fill ex-Oloroso sherry cask for 11 months before being bottled at cask strength with
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This single cask from Westland Distillery, located in Seattle Washington, was aged for 4 years in new charred oak before being aged 2.5 years more in a maple wood barrel that previously held Jack Daniels. This was dumped and bottled at cask strength with no color added, was non-chill filtered, and selected for K&L wines
Review #796; American Single Malt #11: Westland Single Cask #6062 6yr “K&L Select” Read More »
This Rum is the result of Cane juice based fermentation, which has been distilled at Distiilerie du Simon in Martinique. This comes from Chantal Comte, who in her 40 years of distilling has only bottled four unaged rums, with this being the 4th. Every bottle of this rum sold had portions of the proceeds donated
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