Barrell Craft Spirits Batch 027 5 year old
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Category | Bourbon |
Brand | Barrell Craft Spirits |
Origin | United States, Kentucky |
Alcohol/vol | 57.85% |
Proof | 115.70 |
The Barrell Batch 27 is a blend of straight bourbon whiskies distilled and aged using American white oak barrels. The batch began with a blend of six-year-old whiskey aged in fruit forward barrels in Tennessee with five-year-old whiskey, aged in spice-forward barrels from Indiana.
The blenders then layered in 13 and 15-year-old barrels with more wood tannin and nine-year-old barrels with a higher rye content. The new batch was finished off using five and eight-year-old wheated bourbon barrels to soften the batch, brighten the front palate, and solidify a cohesiveness to an otherwise extremely complex flavor profile.
As for the flavor of Barrell Bourbon’s Batch 027, the distillers are unequivocal about the taste of this new blend being a “cherry bomb.” As they write, “At times bright and juicy, at others, brooding and oxidized, but while there are many flavors to be found, cherry stands above them all.”
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Pleasant aromas of confectionery store on the nosecandy apples, milk chocolate, grape jelly, and candied coconutas well as some fresh red fruit notes. Agreeably smooth on the palate, with balanced sweet flavors of chocolate-covered raspberries, candied almonds, cinnamon spice, and coffee. A rich finish offers mint, dark chocolate, drizzled caramel, espresso beans, and cinnamon. A crescendo of fresh red fruit completes a pleasant tasting journey through this well-structured whiskey.