Final summer season, we tasted Fireplace Single Barrel Bourbon from the irreverent and revolutionary Colorado craft distillery Mile Excessive Spirits. At present, we’re digging into the oldest whiskey providing below their Fireplace label, a Bottled in Bond Bourbon. So far as I can inform, it’s primarily the identical rye bourbon as the one barrel however bottled in small batches and aged “simply shy of virtually half 1 / 4 of 4 many years,” per the distillery. That one took me a minute to determine, too. We thought the one barrel confirmed a whole lot of promise final yr, so let’s see what one other yr of barrel getting older has accomplished for this one.
The aroma showcases freshly baked notes of candy, buttery cornbread, sugary praline, and Andes Mints that give a drinker a lot to ponder earlier than the primary sip. The palate is, as soon as once more, wealthy and oily with a formidable silky texture that gives up acquainted notes of toasted sugar and cream soda, together with a contact of caramel apple. On the mid-palate, burly notes of barrel char and contemporary oak muscle in on a few of that sweeter, softer nuance. As soon as the end arrives, issues have dried out a bit with a gentle, woody spice and fading notes of chewy caramel and tobacco. Like the one barrel, this bonded expression of Fireplace bourbon is hampered, simply barely, by an overabundance of oak. Nonetheless spectacular, nonetheless.
100 proof.
B+ / $45 / drinkmhs.com
Mile Excessive Spirits Fireplace Bourbon Bottled in Bond
$45
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