Nose: Sweet corn bread, apricots, vanilla ice cream, sugar cookies, honey blossom, polvito uruguayo, white tea
Palate: Hint of a nice sweet note followed quickly by suuuper strong wood, chlorine, bitter
Rating: 5 (Shane) 4 (Ryan) / 10 – nose is layered, rich and interesting but the palate falls short
Nose: Pilsner fizzle, capers, cedar, pickle brine, tomato leaves
Palate: Hint of wine/sulfur, pickle. bergamot, lightly bitter
Rating: 5 / 10 – surprised by the depth of character
Nose: Warm leather, chess pie, werther’s original caramel hard candy.
Palate: Hot, trademark balcones sourness with a serving of brown sugar sweetness, very very minty with a large sip. Orange peel Relatively intense yet simple.
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Fig sap, grassy, lemon grass, honey, that nice little sour note from a bourbon barrel, camphor.
Palate: In line with the nose, ends on the sour grassy oaky note, bell peppers.
Rating: 5 / 10 – want to love it more than we do, but it doesn’t stand out, meh. I used to love this bottle… but palates change with time.
Nose: Gingerbread, pecans, sugar cookie, cherry panettone, sourdough
Palate: Milk chocolate cherries, oatmeal, lemon drops.
Rating: 5 / 10 – fine for an affordable bottle.
Nose: Buttery, vanilla, white tea.
Palate: Cabinet spices, redvines, rooibos, orange peel, slightly sour bourbon cask note.
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Sour note, slightly nutty, sugar.
Palate: Strong, but good wood, touch of sweetness which nicely negates some of the wood, big sip, dates, prunes, cane honey, subtle molasses, black pepper
Rating: 5 / 10 – fine but oddly non descript
Nose: Prune juice, dates, vanilla bean, sulfur
Palate: Black tea, chocolate and tobacco… and sulfur. Too much for me.missing a touch of sweetness.
Rating: 5 (Ryan) 3 (Shane) / 10 – this is a pretty solid cask if it wasn’t for the sulfur
Nose: Juicy fruit, bubble gum.
Palate: Peach, apple, hint of cardboard, tiny hint of blue cheese
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Orange peel, cedar
Palate: Tangerine peel, white pepper, cedar
Rating: 5 / 10
Nose: Plum, piney, ground venison / venison jerky.
Palate: Maybe the power of suggestion, but you do pick up on a gamey note, roasted peppers
Rating: 5 / 10 – super fun spirit but a bit too disjointed to just enjoy.
Nose: Rich stonefruits, red plums, tobacco, wet dunnage, hint of deviled egg (specifically pickle and mustard)
Palate: Huge px sweety. Sitting on a knife’s edge of my tolerance for sulfur. Probably too far over to be honest. Yup, I’d write more as I like the big syrupy notes but can’t hang.
Rating: 5 / 10 – ough if you don’t mind sulfur and you love heavy sherry bombs, this could be epic. Unfortunately, I can’t hang.
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