Barrell Bourbon Dovetail (123.44 Proof)

Aroma is interesting and unique, offering peach, white grape, honey, sugar cookie, banana, and pine. Ethanol is there if you huff too deeply, but diminishes with smaller sniffs. Palate offers vanilla, blood orange, honey glaze, butterscotch, burnt marshmallow, and banana bread. Flavors are rich and punchy. Lack of wood presence indicates younger whiskey. Finish is long and complex with Concord grape, caramel, orange slice candy, white pepper, and blackberry. Wow…you can still taste some elements minutes later. There is also unattenuated ethanol adding an unwelcome prickly heat. Mouthfeel is medium bodied but extremely oily and slick. Almost bordering on a dessert whiskey with many layers of complexity within the sweetness. Could have mored wood notes for balance. At 86.99, it’s slightly overpriced but yet still a fine whiskey that I would consider rebuying depending on what else is in my current stock.

Has a lot going on, to much for me to drink neat. But in a cocktail its a real surprise. It never hides the flavor and it mingles fantastic with A-LOT of different mixers.