Dry Fly Barrel Reserve Gin

Dry Fly Port Barrel Finished Gin, Barrel Reserve, exclusive hand selected for Total Wine & More, Spokane WA, April 2021. Dry Fly's Northwest style gin distilled from soft white winter wheat, and then finished in port barrels--I'm guessing, like their port barreled wheat whiskey, that this is finished in Columbia Valley’s Townshend Cellar's huckleberry-infused port barrels, and aged for... doesn't say, but I guess (like the oak barrel aged gin) 12 months? Nose is sweet malty hops, a whiff of juniper, and floral fruit. Oak, sweet malt, huckleberry fruit, and a little ethanol caught me by surprise. Finish was grain sweetness, and then dry and short. Roan color more like a light whiskey than a gin. Very distinctive. First taste not so pleasant, but grew on me. More like a white whiskey genever-style gin with fruit sweetness than DF's Northwest-style gin or a classic juniper-forward Londin Dry gin. I really like barrel aged gins, but the sweet malt essence of this is overpowering. I don't see that the port barrel made much difference from DF's regular barrel aged gin, just sweeter.