Bardstown Bourbon Co. Discovery Series #7

Glencairn, neat. Color: Burnt amber. Aroma: With a swirl baked cherry jam, rye spice and dill with a tingle of cinnamon. Settles down to light butterscotch. Not overpowering, but wafting I can draw out the dill. Taste: Creamy and smooth, the dram leaves a pleasant coating across the entire palate with a light sting on the tongue tip. A steady taste throughout the mouth of cooked stone fruits, with cherry the dominant component. Slight toffee and butterscotch at the back end. Finish: Long, warming and smooth, with a slight lingering burn across the palate. Overall: Satisfactory. There is complexity in the aroma, with subtle layers that reveal a unique dill element that I found intriguing. Taste is more or less one-dimensional, with only hints of flavor change from mid to back palate. Definitely aged but not overly oaked, and there is balance in the taste and finish.

Pale gold with a ruddy copper hue. Legs are reluctant to appear, but when they start forming there's lots. Nose is dark caramel, cherry, vanilla, weathered oak boards, a hint of rye and spice. Sweet and soft up front, an absolute flavor bomb! Stone fruit, milk chocolate, dried cherries, caramel, and rich maple and brown sugar notes. Long, drawn out finish returns the oak with a shift to baking chocolate and luxardo maraschino cherries. Alarmingly drinkable at the proof straight out of the bottle, yet a few drops of water stretch it out. This is absolutely wonderful. Well balanced, long finish and wildly rich and interesting.

Aroma - strawberries, buttercream frosting, sugar candies.. like walking into a candy shop, slight hint of cocoa powder, faint hint of cinnamon. Smell is quite decadent. Taste - This ones mirrors the nose and again, its quite nice. The frosting, strawberries, cocoa powder, all very evident again. Big brown sugar notes mid palate and just a hint of that rye and dash of cinnamon to bring the sweetness back to earth and balance it all out. Overall - it’s done very well. Price tag is a bit steep but justified. Would make for a nice post meal / night capper pour Happy Father’s Day!

Nose: some floral notes. I don’t get a lot Taste: toffee, brown sugar, with some green apple. Finish: crème brûlée with smoke smoky oak. For $130 a bottle I would like to see more. It’s a good bottle of bourbon. I enjoy the fact the tell you where everything come from and what percentage the batch is made with. I do enjoy who the each sip just lingers with you.

It is complex and good but not my fav of Discovery series. Much better than 5. Strong brown sugar and then a little bit of a bite. Then it lingers (in a good way). I would like very much to be offered this whisky but I would not pay another $135. I will buy the next in the series.

Great nose on this. I don’t get the floral some say, but very inviting vanilla and some oak. Transfers over to the palate with a bit of brown sugar but a short finish. Should get more complexity for the money.