Michter's 25 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon (2023 Release)

2023 Michter’s 25 Year Bourbon. One fantastic old bourbon. Has loads of mint chocolate, pecan pie, cinnamon, dark fruit, nutmeg, cloves, leather, tobacco, caramel, cherries, and earthy soil notes commonly found in many of the finest wines. Michter’s had a great 2023 with its 10 Year Bourbon, 10 Year Rye, Toasted Barrel Rye and put the cherry on the sundae with the 25 year bourbon. Nose: Mint Chocolate, Cinnamon, Pecan Pie, Nutmeg, Blood Oranges, Maple Syrup, Apricots, Raisins, Figs, Plums, Toasted Marshmallows, Vanilla, Cherry Compote, Licorice, Olives, Tobacco, Soil, Creme Brulee Palate: Caramel, Cloves, Mexican Hot Chocolate, Apricots, Pecan Pie, Leather, Butterscotch, Morello Cherries, Tobacco, Cloves, Nutmeg, Cranberries, Baking Spices Finish: Toasted Honey, Caramel, Almonds, Mint Chocolate, Cinnamon, Root Beer, Cherry Cola, Hazlenuts, Tobacco, Leather

An unreal experience that I was not ready for, but took the ride, and oh what a ride it was. The nose was rich oiled leather, dates, cinammon, clove, wintergreen and the wave of smells you get when you first enter a tobacco shop. Flavor/taste was canned peaches, more of that date note turning towards figs and raisins, worn leather that’s seen a little too much sunshine, and all of those baking spices you sprinkle. Finish clung to the inside of your mouth like a rodeo rider that just refuses to hop off that leather. Sweetness and slight funk/earthiness hang on till you rinse your palate because it didn’t leave. Incredible

Like a maple syrup cherry bomb