Ultimately for me but already this "Single Barrel" version a stunner, which one can hardly resist. Now I have been really drunk many bourbons and single malts, but this one is for me the highlight, a taste sensation full of flavors. Even the smell makes the bourbon connoisseurs dream, complex, powerful, surprisingly fruity, oaky and he never loses the Bourbon-typical. And in the mouth then you do not know where to first taste, which is like having 5 different whiskeys in the mouth, the play together harmoniously and happily Ringelreihen.
But one should not think you would have here a lovely sugar broth before him: He is with all harmony but very spicy and strong, with a clear alcoholic note - which is almost in the single-malt direction (but without peat or smoke) and while retaining the bourbon own sweetness and vanilla. I would recommend Pure and warm to drink this whiskey, and to smoke a nice creamy cigar. Alternatively, a noble drink - yes, even this exceptional whiskey can hernehmen for cocktails, he makes the cocktail then to a high-end feel-good product - its just 46.5% let him particularly light since. Of course, here offers something classic to, the frame appropriately. I am thinking of a simple "Old Fashioned" or "The Chapel Hill":
1 1/2 oz bourbon
1 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz lime juice
Of course, part of this top whiskey bottle with the overall package. A bottle with a facet-like touches, a very reductionist label with handwritten details like barrel, racking and warehouse number, and the truly spectacular plug with the racehorse of metal. The whole in a nice cardboard box. Wow, a presentation that is appropriate for the content. Those looking for a gift for a whiskey connoisseurs - here the pleasure is guaranteed.
As I said - there is not much room for improvement. Must try. This is a Bourbon, the I reserve me for those special moments. And then I let the empty glass drunk quite a while standing and sniff it, because the aromas floating long in the empty glass ...
As with all my reviews spirits is my intention: to drink no more, but better.