Barrell Bourbon New Year 2017

This is a limited release from Barrel, created by masterfully blending a selection of 5, 7, 8, 9 and 13-year old Straight Bourbons that were separately distilled and aged in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana. The resulting 117 proof product was aged in American white oak barrels and finally bottled in Kentucky.

Appearance: luxuriant 18 karat gold flecked with cinnamon red at its heart with edges of yellower gold leaf shimmering with each gentle swirl of the glass.

Nose: wet leather and Tahitian-vanilla bean challah French toast awash in hazelnut brown butter and dark maple syrup. Sweet plum and cherry notes give way to campfire and toasted buckwheat for a simultaneously familiar and exotic aroma.

Palate: smoldering oak underlies the ever-present heat with each sip accentuated by salted caramel and droplets of condensed milk. 

Finish: crackling hot late-season corn pudding, covered in dollops of rapidly melting sweet butter jumps at you.Each sip plunges down the throat, drenched in spicy
citrus marmalade and toasted grains.