Colorado-based Stranahan’s has made its limited-edition Diamond Peak an annual affair. For 2022, the model takes its normal malt whiskey, aged for 4 years in new American oak barrels, then finishes in single malt whiskey barrels from Eire’s Bushmills for greater than 3 further years. That’s a novel, 7 yr previous American single malt. Let’s see the outcomes.
Malty however well-aged, Stranahan’s manages to deftly keep away from the syrupy character widespread to American malt in addition to the overly woody notes that appear to at all times trip together with the type. There’s an actual freshness to the nostril right here, although peppery parts and a rye-adjacent grassiness add a way of drama.
I feel the palate is extra attention-grabbing, the malty grain beginning the expertise off proper, with simply the suitable stage of sweetness — by no means saccharine or overblown. Mild touches of lemon curd and inexperienced apple give the whiskey loads of fruitiness — shades of Irish coming by means of — whereas parts of honeycomb, coconut oil, sesame, and nougat notes all in a swirl. Once more notes of pepper and a contact of grassiness that looks like rye (however isn’t) perk up on the end, although this helps to mood a few of the delicate sweetness within the combine. All informed, the whiskey is superbly balanced, dancing on the pinnacle of a pin because it weaves its method amongst notes of recent fruit, toasty grains, and touches of spice. I saved going again to it again and again. Beautiful, light stuff.
90 proof. Reviewed: Batch #5.
A- / $80 / stranahans.com [BUY IT NOW FROM CASKERS]
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey Diamond Peak (2022)
$80
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