Heaven Hill. If bourbon is your thing, that's a name you should be very familiar with. If you're unfamiliar, we recommend you become acquainted with the legendary Kentucky-based producer and its wares - which includes this good value-for-money expression. tasty sipped neat, and will be great for any whiskey-based cocktails you could throw at it. Or throw it at. Maybe don't do any throwing. Throwing generally isn't great for cocktail making unless you're one of those bartenders that does somersaults.
Rye-rich, quite spicy and sweet.
Spices, oak, cedar, a little rum-like character develops.
Fruity, dark brown sugar.
nose; summer sweet, taste: sweet and sour, honey and yeast, new wood and green sap, medium/long finish, good value for money.
This bournon is great for Old Fashioned cocktails, or for sipping with ice. Really smooth
Have tasted better bourbons. I can't decide what the nose is all about - earthy with a touch of fruit maybe? Taste is quite weak - slightly sweet but with spirit. Finish is fruity and peters out quickly. But then the packaging also looks cheap...
The previous 5-star user review has distorted this whiskey's place in the results. It is okay, and made by one of the last family-owned distilleries in KY, which says a lot, but it's not even close to the kind of whiskey that is worth 5 stars. I'm giving it 1 star just to even it out in the results.
Living in Kentucky for 32 years and being a bourbon aficionado let me warn you that Heaven Hill is not worth 16 pounds. Here in the states we pay approximately (US)$8 per bottle or perhaps (GB) 4L. It is very cheap, very dirty with a grit that will stay on the palette for hours. If you are mixing this bourbon fine but a true sippin' whisky this is not.
