Feast your eyes on Charcoal & Cornmeal & Rickhouses & a Decade, a 10 year old bourbon whiskey! People who sit at the centre of the Venn diagram of 'bourbon boffins' and 'ampersand aficionados' ought to be rather excited about this expression. Honestly, you don't even have to like ampersands, or any punctuation really – but if you love brilliant bourbon, you're in the right place. The label may be quite understated, but it certainly states some of the main elements of this well-aged whiskey, and it doesn't disappoint. Great value for a bourbon with a 10 year old age statement, too (particularly as bourbon with an age statement isn't quite as common a sight as it once was).
Freshly baked oatmeal raisin cookies, treacle tarts, brown butter, a few hints of pine resin and charred oak before returning to vanilla fudge sweetness.
Peanut brittle, brioche dipped in coffee, a crackle of nutmeg and black pepper. Just a smidge of raspberry in there too.
Buttered popcorn, liquorice, cooked apple, a softly sweet spiciness sticks around.
Everything you want out of a good bourbon is still right there in your glass.
As per other reviews... Wrong pricepoint guys! I would have bought at the price if it was barrel proof, but at 40% to describe this bottle as "great value" is laughable!
Bit of a marketing exercise in my opinion. Cheeky to bottle this at the minimum 40% and then charge a premium price for it. Sure it has a decent age statement but I'll be sticking to Eagle Rare if I want a 10 year age statement on my bourbon. Priced better and bottled at a more generous 45% too...
