By Richard Thomas
Score: B
Black Button Single Barrel Reserve Apple Brandy Completed Bourbon
(Credit score: Black Button Distilling)
5 years in the past, we reviewed a Port-finished single barrel bourbon from Rochester’s Black Button Distilling. That’s nonetheless listed because the staple single barrel expression from Black Button, nevertheless it has since been joined by a cask power model completed in Apple Brandy casks as an alternative of the Port casks. The bottom is their 4 grain bourbon (60% corn, 20% wheat, 9% rye, 11% barley), aged for two or extra years in predominately 15- and 30-gallon barrels, previous to the Apple Brandy end. The bourbon is then bottled at 110 proof, not far faraway from the entry proof of the whiskey, so it is a cask power/entry proof bourbon, in addition to a single barrel.
The Bourbon
A pour of these things has a light-weight amber coloring within the glass. My tackle the nostril was it was loads like a slice of heat apple pie if the crust had been made with pumpernickel flour. The flavour adopted in a lot the identical vein, however with a grainier character.
The Value
Though formally simply $75, that is being gouged by most on-line retailers, who’re providing this merchandise for between $145 and $200 a bottle.
