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Reservoir Distillery
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While their Bourbon, Rye and Wheat expressions are all made with 100% corn, 100% rye and 100% wheat (respectively), the folks at the Reservoir distillery are also rather accomplished at blending these spirits into fine tipples, too. This is their Hunter & Scott Bourbon, made with a combination of grains - not just one!
I came here after I bought the bottle and I was expecting pretty bad, but on the rocks with a splash of water makes for a fine sipping beverage. Overall, it’s not a one or half star bourbon, but neither is it a 4 or 5 star. Call it what it is, a fair value (@$40) Virginia made product
I picked this up in Virginia looking for something new and enticed by the dark amber of the bourbon. Extremely disapointed. It took me a day and a half to identify the nose - It's moth balls. The taste and aftertaste is one of plastic. So think of drinking bourbon out of a plastic bag that you have stored your Santa suit in with moth balls in the attic all year.
I was really surprised- the reviews nearly scared me off. I actually like it. He's what I'd say- if you like wheated bourbon... You'll love this stuff. I'd buy it again and I think it's worth $40.
Reservoir makes some great pours, but this isn't one of them. It seems like an attempt to puff up an inferior product with cute label design. My disaster of a bourbon was from 2017, batch 8, bottle 102, based on the hand-lettered label. If you look close at that label, you'll see it was aged about "5G 1 Year" whatever that means. But it's a young bourbon, not a 17 year old. Small cask aged, which I guess makes up for pure time in the barrel. The label is beautiful though, and gives a sense of craftsmanship. The bourbon inside is pretty bad. Odd vegetal and chemical notes on the nose compete with and overwhelm a nice oak aroma, and the taste follows through on those notes and adds an unbalanced eucalyptus note, presumably from the rye component. At least some sweetness from the wheat comes through. If the flavor was balanced and lacking strong chemical notes, that rye kick would probably be very nice. On the positive side, it made a very nice butter-maple-bourbon sauce as a glaze for acorn squash and baked salmon. The bourbon worked well in that context.
Took one sip and thought there may have been some wax in the pour. Nope, just very bad bourbon. What a waste
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