Trade
Barrell Craft Spirits
Barrell Dovetail Whiskey 70cl
Customer Rating
“This is a great bourbon and you can really identify the fruitiness from being finished in wine casks as well as the sweetness from the rum casks. So many flavours to savour. So smooth and moreish considerng bottled at cask strength as well. ”
Alan
Description
From the team at Barrell Craft Spirits in Louisville, Kentucky, Dovetail is made by finishing bourbon whiskey in Dunn Vineyards Cabernet casks, Port pipes, and blackstrap molasses rum casks. Produced in batches, blended to taste, and bottled at cask strength.
Tasting Note by The Producer
Nose
Opens with mature aromas both sweet (canele´, panna cotta, cre`me de noyaux) and savoury (walnut oil, leather). This is followed quickly by a vast array of fruit derived both from the spirit (smoked apricot, grapefruit peel) as well as the cask treatment (sloe gin, damson jam). The aroma is high toned, pungently floral and herbaceous, with subtle, balancing pops of minerality.
Palate
Darker (cocoa, molasses, burnt marshmallow) and spicier (cola, nutmeg, Tellicherry peppercorn) than the nose, an effect well-complemented by the cask treatment and rendered more complex by the savoury and herbaceous themes running throughout. ?
Finish
A sweet and elegant signature of rose jelly, chestnut honey, and Pineau des Charentes that also features hazelnut, eucalyptus, and Corsican mint.
