2 years in the past we took a deep dive into the whiskeys of Peg Leg Porker, sourced Tennessee bourbons at quite a lot of ages, bottled by an area pitmaster after filtering by his personal charcoal, after growing older. What we missed on the time was PLP’s prime expression, a 15 yr outdated “Pitmaster Reserve” that was on the verge of launch then and which remains to be robust to trace down.
We’re lastly again with a take a look at Peg Leg 15, a probable Dickel-born providing that’s effectively into its teenagers.
First impressions: The nostril is super-soft, a curiously abstracted bourbon that provides notes of vanilla wafers over vanilla, peanut brittle over peanut shell, and egg cream over pure chocolate. Notes of honey, nougat, chocolate wafers, and Almond Roca all inform a palate that — no disrespect — feels drawn from the sweet aisle at your native CVS. Touches of applesauce, walnut oil, cinnamon raisin bread, and a few toasted coconut give the whiskey much more layers of well-sweetened spice, however they’re by no means backed up by a lot in the way in which of physique. Because the end builds, the whiskey comes throughout as aggressively candy, a Cinnabon character dominating as any sense of the barrel rapidly dissipates.
I by no means thought a 15 yr outdated bourbon may come throughout so gently — for higher or for worse. This might need proven a bit higher at larger proof, simply pondering.
90 proof.
B+ / $360
Peg Leg Porker Tennessee Bourbon 15 Years Outdated
$360
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