Following the profitable launch of 2XO The Phoenix Mix, American whiskey blender Dixon Dedman is happy to launch the second small batch mix within the model’s Icon Sequence, The Innkeeper’s Mix. The Innkeeper’s Mix pays homage to the Dedman household’s century-plus historical past within the hospitality trade, as earlier house owners of the famed Beaumont Inn on Kentucky’s Bourbon Path. The Innkeeper’s Mix shall be out there in choose markets nationwide in restricted portions, and on-line at ReserveBar, with a advised retail value of $100.
Dixon’s great-great-grandmother began the inn in 1919, and Dixon was eight years outdated when he first remembers “serving to out”. Dixon joined the household enterprise after graduating faculty in 2003, and by 2008 he was absolutely working the inn. “The hospitality enterprise taught me rather a lot. It trains you to take care of all the pieces that comes your manner, to regulate, and react on the fly. The Innkeeper’s Mix is a nod to that a part of my life that put me on this present path.”
2XO, that means Two Instances Oak, refers to Dixon’s distinctive mixing course of the place he re-barrels a few of his hand-selected aged whiskey into new charred oak barrels, with each #3 and #4 char ranges, to create a novel mixture of intense flavors, character, and complexity with every mix. The Innkeeper’s Mix is made up of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskeys composed of two proprietary mash payments from totally different distilling companions – one a excessive rye 35% bourbon mash invoice and the opposite a low rye 16-18% bourbon mash invoice.
Like all of the small batch blends within the Icon Sequence, The Innkeeper’s Mix is a restricted time launch. As soon as it sells on the market won’t ever be one other prefer it. Every small batch mix within the Icon Sequence bares a particular title and image impressed by Dixon’s ardour to innovate, collaborate, and create high-quality liquids with distinctive traits and profiles.
The Innkeeper’s Mix shall be adopted by the third launch within the Icon Sequence, The Tribute Mix. Moreover, 2XO will launch the primary mix in a brand new Oak Sequence, American Oak, which shall be an on a regular basis providing, and a single barrel, restricted time launch from the Gem of Kentucky Sequence.
GSN’s Remarks: Darkish fragrant penumbra on the nostril with an intense woodiness. On the palate, issues are very tight and intricately interwoven with an virtually chewy mouthfeel. A great deal of full of life baking spices add vivaciousness to the affair with numerous vivid, excessive notes dancing on the tongue. The physique is medium-heavy with numerous wooden in the direction of the backof the mouth. All the things fades with a fairly lengthy end ending on a notice of cinnamon toast. An actual pleasure. GSN Ranking: A
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