Wow this is bad. Offensive all the way through. We were thinking about checking out the distillery tour tomorrow and changed our mind after trying this. Nose: Lemon pledge, eucalyptus, vanilla, white sugars, pine, cedar, and wood glue. Flavor: Exactly like it smells. Like a solvent I'd clean my oven with. Tastes like artificial sugars and diet soda. Finish: Short and brutal. Cleaning fluids and sugar. Wow this is horrible. Maybe the worst whiskey I've ever tasted. I'm thinking I may dump this out just to use the bottle for something else which is a first for me. Don't waste your money. Seriously.
About this bottle
Sonoma Distilling Company Sonoma Bourbon is the brand's flagship wheated bourbon. It is made with a mash bill of 70% corn from California and Canada, 25% wheat from California and Canada, and 5% malted barley from Wyoming. It is aged a minimum of 15 months in new, char #3 American oak ranging in size from 15, 30, and 53-gallons. Bottled at 92 proof.
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There is brown sugar, pronounced oak, caramel, char, and closer to the finish some almost prune notes with a vanilla and spice finish. I feel like its been treated pretty poorly in the reviews. its definitely not as bad as some say, just nothing crazy.
Bourbon Advent calendar 2020 Ok - unlike some of the other comments, we wouldn’t pour it down the drain. But not a keeper. It does have a very oaky taste. This was the last one of the calendar; kind of a poor one to end on.
Young whiskey that burns in the upper chest and back of throat. Tastes grassy. Not a good pour for the price. First time I've actually dumped a bottle down the drain.
Sweet, bold, oily wood, leather, dense wood, spices, furniture polish. Very strange, different, liked it in a weir way. Too harsh, furniture polish.
One of the worse I have ever tasted. Dumped my glass because it was that bad. I wanted to give it a zero but I can’t
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