One Eight Distilling Untitled Whiskey No. 11

Neat. Neck pour. First of the Untitled series. All of this finishing sounds crazy and I love the Cognac finished stuff I have had lately. This nose is deep. Chocolate covered raisins. Tootsie roll. Syrup covered baked dates. Pralines and rock candy. Sugared covered almond. I think you get the point on the sweetness. No escaping it. Dark, sweet, syrupy. Average mouth feel. Maple and Sherry up front. Dark honey... this one has me so stumped. So much going on all over. Befuddled. The bourbon isn’t really there. It’s all the finishing, the cognac, port, Sherry. All at once. But it is all blanketed by this lovely vanilla and butterscotch. Finish has some nice chocolate but is mostly cognac driven. This is a crazy pour. Hard to call it a bourbon. The finishing took over all phases. It’s fun and well balanced for this much finishing going on. Unique and delicious.

Nose: corn, vanilla, sweet caramel, light raspberry wraps itself around. Dark cherry cordial. Cognac and tobacco. Taste: sherry makes itself evident along with an intense oak and corn finish. Bit of smoked dark grapes. Water awakens the nose into a cognac with light bourbon notes. Intense grape and tobacco with an almondy syrupy back layer. Same for the palette. It really tastes like an mid-aged cognac with some bourbon notes stuffed in. Dark chocolate, very sweet vanilla cream. Light tobacco and grape finish.

Drinking straight out of glencairn glass. The nose is a sweet fruit and a brown sugar mix. Hits the tongue and adds a sweet red sherry flavor with a little bitter fruit. Definitely a maple syrup in there too. It’s a honey and oak aftertaste that sticks around for a decent while. This is a great bottle but might be too sweet for some. Just right for me. Excellent.

Neat. Nose is sweet berry maple. Taste is sweet berry burnt sugar that turns to spicy oak with a long dry berry spice finish.

Smooth and easy drinking. Notes of orange peel follow by berry and oak with a nice finish