Blue Run‘s second launch of the yr is one other contract-distilled product with Jim Rutledge as “liquid advisor” on the challenge.
Blue Run “Reflection I” Kentucky Straight Bourbon is a small-batch whiskey which Rutledge distilled at Fortress & Key Distillery in 2018. Simply 200 rigorously chosen barrels have been chosen for this bottling, every toasted to a #3 or #4 char and aged in Frankfort and Bardstown, KY.
The whiskey hits the nostril a bit on the new facet, an enormous barrel char punch backed up with numerous roasted peanut and a smattering of spice field. There’s youth right here, masked to a point by the marginally uncooked alcohol character. No main modifications arrive on the palate: Peanut is much more dominant right here, although brighter notes of cherry and a pastry dough component give the bourbon a form of cherry pie character later within the recreation. It’s a light impact, nevertheless, because the youth of peanut butter and caramel corn in the end steal the present, lingering for ages on the lengthy, warming end.
Fairly expensive for its complexion.
95 proof.
B / $90
Blue Run Reflection I Kentucky Straight Bourbon
$90
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