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| SINGLE BARREL SPECIAL RESERVE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON Kentucky |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
BLANTON'S |
| Light golden amber colour. Very spicy, very faintly minty, caramel-Bourbon nose. Dry, medium bodied, very spicy, fairly intense albeit somewhat restrained, plum-bourbon flavours with a caramel-tinged, rather youthful finish. Has 40% alcohol and with lot number 4-25-16 on the lower part of the glass bottle. A REPEAT that last appeared in Vintages (**/**+) on July 9, 2016 at $64.95. |
CSPC |
558320 |
| Type |
Spirit - American Whiskey |
| Agent |
Cha Hob |
| Country |
USA |
| Region |
 |
| Rating |
***(90 points)
Spicy, Honeyed, Caramel |
| LCBO Text |
Status |
Recommended by Vintage Assessments! |
| TASTING NOTE: Blanton's, in the distinctive spherical bottle topped with a racehorse figurine, specializes in singlebarrel, superpremium bourbon. It's the idiosyncratic and generally pricier side of the business, where each bottle contains whisky tapped directly from a specific cask rather than from a large tank into which multiple casks have been emptied and blended for flavour consistency. Single-barrel whiskies tend to be more robust, but this excellent entrylevel Special Reserve bottling, with the green label, achieves remarkable smoothness while retaining considerable single-barrel character. Bottled at 40-per-cent alcohol (lower than Blanton's three other offerings), it's big on smooth caramel and peppery spice along with hints of orange, vanilla and charred toast topped with melted butter. Score - 92 (Beppi Crosariol, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 3, 2015) |
Price |
$ 64.95 |
| Bottle Size |
750 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - February 3, 2018 |
| Cases bought |
180 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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