Parker's Heritage 10 Year Heavy Char Bourbon

Nose: Neat: very sweet mouth watering caramel, vanilla, molasses. Faint oak. Faint cherry and nuttiness With water: waaay more nuttiness with water Body: Neat: full, bold With water: medium to full, looses a little bit of its bite Palate: Neat: packed full of flavor, caramel, vanilla, spicy With water: I found this to be very peanuty, like peanuts dipped in caramel. Really extremely good. The very last sip I got a hint of cherry. Finish: Neat: very long and smoky sweet. With water: still long maybe not quite as long. Note: 1ounce from don. Oh my god that is good. The first sip was like a firework of flavor, classic bourbon flavors caramel, vanilla but vibrant dancing on your tongue and brining some heat. I love the finish. A long smoky caramel is how all bourbon should be. I’d like a bottle of this. Yum! A taste from Jared. This time around the heat hit me first along with caramel and vanilla standard fare but there was some sweetness hidden in the heat. Jared felt the heavy char was not kind to this dram but I think, while not as good as last years version, this is still very flavorful. I got smoky caramel on the second sip. I’m drinking it neat and don’t get any of the nuttiness I got before. Noses like smoky caramel and vanilla. I like it. Not as much as the rye but this is good

Aromas jump out of the glass, very potent vapors without much ethanol. Oak plays the backbone for everything that is happening in this nose. It dominates, but it lets other flavors come out to play too. Tobacco, dark chocolate, black cherry, cinnamon and star anise, musty old bookstore, and shoe polish play off the heavy oak presence quite well. But there is nothing light about this bourbon. The heavy char is very prominent and brooding. Reminds me of bottles with much more age to them like the Rhetoric series. Super rich, sweeter than expected right away with vanilla, sweet tobacco, and some root beer with cola like spices in the background. The drying oak isn't overpowering but plays a nice contrast to the sweeter initial flavor profile. Finish is dry with toasty oak and cinnamon hard candies. Warming and oh so smooth. Surprising lack of burn on the way down either. Delicious These releases never really disappoint. This is simply delicious for oak lovers. Once you get past the heavy char there is a surprising amount of sweet flavors there too that strikes such a good balance. Beautiful stuff

Neat. Neck pour. Okay, the color on this startlingly dark. May be the darkest bourbon I have seen next to one of the Orphan Barrels. Love the nose. So rich and thick. Like thick, as if the fragrance coming off it was like this thick fog. Has a density to it. So there is an oak presence but the char really shows itself as a burnt caramel. Getting a hint of banana, which may be my first on a Heaven Hill. Nice cherry cheesecake with a graham cracker crust. Oh and graham crackers are covered in honey. A rich vanilla ice cream too. This thing is overloaded with deliciousness. Mouthfeel is silky smooth awesomeness. Wow this is great great stuff. Cinnamon and brown sugar with a hint of cherry up front. Transitions into the charred caramel mid palate and my god the cherry cheesecake and graham cracker crust comes through on the finish and lingers. And the legs just go and go. The flavors from mid palate to finish are so rich and deep and impactful. This makes my soul smile. Ah yeah, this is going in my favorite bourbons of the year blind flight. This is awesome. No more words for it.

Nose: lots of oak and smoke. Also very buttery nose. Heavy dark fruit as well. Noting that the color is soooo dark. Palate: whoa...this is incredible. The first half-second you get all wood with no fruit at all. Then it immediately bursts with sweetness out of no where. So much dark fruit on the back palate. I’ve also never had a bourbon that changes this much halfway through the palate. Finish: the wood is back but it blends nicely with the cherries at the same time. The wood/oak lingers forever. Overall: $150 is steep. But jeez is this bourbon good. For a once a year, limited release I thoroughly enjoy this bottle. This is my first Parker’s Heritage but holy cow man I’m glad I got lucky. Also, adding that at 120 proof, this bottle drinks way way below that.

This is my first experience with a Parker product and a friend is sharing a taste of two, this being my favorite. The heavy char really brings out the barrel qualities without over-oaking. This stuff could be dangerous if not respected. The alcohol is barely noticeable on the nose or palate. I use white oak flooring cut offs when I smoke meat. Blend that smokey fragrance with that of the rick house angel share and that's the nose I get. The caramel-vanilla is rich and the smokiness just right. There's cherries jubilee as well. The nose on this one is perfection. So I guess I should taste it. Burnt brown sugar leads the way, like the top of creme brulee. There's a nuttiness and some dark cherries. This all leads to sweet oak finish.

Initial Aroma is totally a Mounds bar. Dark chocolate and coconut. This gives way to coffee later. Dark brown sugar ever present. Have to say I'm starting to be able to recognize the Heaven Hill flavor profile. Later a meatiness in the Aroma. Flavor before water is chocolate, caramel, fresh ground black pepper. Dark sugar. Drops of water have this explode in both flavor and herbaceousness. (sp?) More spice and definitely a lot of mint on the scene. Coffee just below the surface. A touch more Creamy as it opens. Almost epic, but the finish just isn't there. Doesn't last long and fades a bit too quick. Still a great Bourbon. But so close to epic.