I had this while sat at the hotel bar while waiting for our takeaway dinner order. The whiskey was served up in a slightly curved tumbler and was accompanied by a local IPA. This is another whiskey that I've never tried before and rye is a style I'm also unfamiliar with. The barman told me this was a good whiskey, tasty and smooth with just a little smoke!
This juice comes from the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky and is a straight rye whiskey, which means it's made up of at least 51% rye grain and aged for at least 2 years in fresh charred virgin american oak barrels. I have been led to believe that it has actually been aged for 6 years and I can confirm that it is bottled at 45% ABV - Nice!"The Sazerac" is a cocktail - possibly Americas' first branded cocktail - a mixture of rye whiskey or cognac, peychauds' bitters, absinthe and sugar. sounds interesting! I'll have to give it a go sometime. Apparently some politician tried to get legislation passed to make this Louisiana's official state cocktail - wow! What a good use of time and resources - the bill was defeated. SHAME!!!!
Price: I really can't remember what I payed for this at the bar but booze in the states is cheap, and I've searched for this over here in Melbourne and it's pricey in this part of the world! $110 a bottle at my local larger bottle shop. Is this value for money mmmmm maybe not quite: 3/6
Appearance: as you can see the bottle has a unique shape without being overly ostentatious, the stylised writing in my mind fits in with the backstory and the whiskey in the bottle looks like whiskey! nice and golden brown: 6/6Marketing: there's a web address on the bottle which goes to a dead website - old bottle possibly, maybe the information on the buffalo trace website is what's available. That website tells the story about the New Orleans cocktail thing... nothing that I noticed on YouTube apart from whiskey reviewers vlogs. The whiskey has a genuine, nice backstory that doesn't reek of manure: 5/6
Availability: it is available here, I can walk down the road and have a bottle of this in my hand in 10 minutes time if I wished and seeing as how it's got a fairly famous cocktail named after it I'd say a lot of cocktail bars and decent whiskey bars will be stocking some too. 6/6
Packaging and Label: while the stylised writing is lovely, it doesn't tell everything about the whiskey in the bottle, OK straight rye, 45%, and place of distillation V dead website and no age statement: 4/6I should point out I drank this by the water and there was a pleasant breeze, it was a hot day! My pizza and coleslaw arrived sooner then expected and I had not eaten in 6 hours I was hungry.
Nose: this whiskey has a fruitiness, a sweetness and some cereal notes, I was getting something rubbery too, a slight chemical note that I couldn't quite place, maybe air fix modelling glue or something of the sort, over time i noted more sweetness and something buttery. 16/20
Taste on Entry: fruity initially and light, with a good bit of spice, wood and something else maybe nutmeg. 16/20
Mouth feel and body: This whiskey is smooth and has a good body to it, nice mouth feel: 8/10
Finish: sweet, buttery, peppery finish that lasts for a decent bit! 16/20
It's good stuff!
Total score 80/100
Taste on Entry: fruity initially and light, with a good bit of spice, wood and something else maybe nutmeg. 16/20
Mouth feel and body: This whiskey is smooth and has a good body to it, nice mouth feel: 8/10
Finish: sweet, buttery, peppery finish that lasts for a decent bit! 16/20
It's good stuff!
Total score 80/100
For the record the IPA is a Kona Longboard made locally on the big island and is quite hoppy and fruity to taste and quite fruity in the nose too, I had quite a few of these over the week, it's a good beer!
Cheers,
Kev
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