Nose - apple juice, floral notes, honey, grass, toffee, mild to moderate ethanol burn. Taste - toffee, sour apple, vanilla, honey, chili pepper, grass, floral notes, cherry, cereal grain, moderate alcohol bite, finishing fast with cereal grain, toffee, and sour apple flavors. Well, we’re back to mediocrity with this final Laws review. The rye I tasted last night was fairly decent, but there’s just not much going for this one. The nose is almost completely nonexistent. It’s not bad, but there’s nothing interesting or defining about it, save for a bit of cheap apple juice and a generalized sweet, floral quality. The palate is slightly more interesting, and I mean slightly. The apple note comes into focus more clearly, along with some toffee and the hot zing of chili pepper, which is probably the youth making itself known. As I’ve come to expect from these young Laws expressions, the finish is disappointingly short and, in this case, rather grainy. Overall, I’m glad I was able to experience these four whiskies from Laws for the nominal price of a sampler pack. However, I’m not inspired to seek out additional offerings, especially given that their pricing is so completely incongruous with the quality of their products. If I see one of their bonded offerings at a bar, I’d likely give it a try, but a bottle will not be in the near future for me.
About this bottle
Colorado's Laws Whiskey House highlights its unique locale in every aspect of its production, from high-altitude maturation, to the use of mountain spring water, and an emphasis on Colorado grain and heirloom varietals. Henry Road Malt is distilled with grain grown by the Cody family of Colorado Malting Company at an elevation of 7,500 feet. The malted barley is the same that's used as a component in the distillery's Four Grain bourbon.
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The nose starts with Apple Jacks cereal then chamomile tea flowers followed by a mix of cinnamon redhots and bowling alley shoes with medium ethanol burn. The taste is a thin mouthfeel starting with a mix of sour apple candy and raw vegetal notes followed by a medium spice and bowling alley shoes with medium ethanol burn. Finish is short with a backdrop of soured apple cider, stale brown bread along with brewed chamomile tea that has steeped with a bitter orange peel too long. I’m not sure who thought this was ready because it’s young, astringent, with some light fruit, floral, bitter and smoky notes. Even worse than bottling up some young and rough whiskey for sale, I’m not sure who thought this would be worthy to compete in a $70 range. For the $70, I’d much rather pick up an OF 1920, JD Single Barrel Barrel Proof or Wild Turkey Rare Breed. A big thanks to @ctbeck11 for the generous sample for me to taste.
T8ke: 4.4 Nose is very bright bitter-sweet with a young pear / peach / green apple tang and a honey-suckle sweetness with maybe a little brown sugar. Taste is sickle sweet up front with a pretty bold unroasted coffee bean flavor around the edges, some baking spice / toffee on going into a relatively short finish. Its pretty obvious how young this whiskey is, but that being said its actually well done - no young harsh oak flavor like most...especially from CO. No Kentucky hug though, and its a strange flavor profile that I just do not see myself reaching for.
Nose: floral, citrus palate: orange cardamon peppercorn
Earthy. Malty. Funky. Some sweetness on the finish.
Don't like flavor profile.
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