Basil Hayden Pink Wine Cask End is a brand new, limited-edition launch from the Kentucky label that sees its bourbon partially completed in California purple wine casks. It takes on a ruddy copper hue in look, and has a wealthy, fruity, spicy aroma that brings forth fruit leather-based, ginger and spice.
Pink Wine Cask End is lush and mellow on the palate, consistent with Basil Hayden’s attribute lightness. Nevertheless it’s a distinct ballgame taste smart, beginning with fruit leather-based, juicy berries, and ginger earlier than sweetening to candied ginger and strawberry jam on the heart. These purple wine notes actually sing on the again and manifest as a candy, jammy purple bursting with fruit taste earlier than being joined by gentle oak spice on the end. Its candy, evenly spiced end brings to thoughts an oak cask that’s nonetheless moist with wine.
Whereas Basil Hayden’s lightness is maybe its largest promoting level, its purposeful mellowness hadn’t glad me up to now. However when coupled to the purple wine end it produces a bourbon that’s gentle, spicy, and candy—a great mixture.
I additionally loved this whiskey in a Manhattan, the place its wine-influenced character coupled to candy vermouth made for a cocktail that was wealthy, fruity, and rounded.
★★★
Stats:
—40% ABV
—$59.99
