Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon
DISTILLERY: BUFFALO TRACE
BOTTLED: 2019
REGION: KENTUCKY, USA
BOTTLE STRENGTH: 40% / 80 PROOF
BOTTLE SIZE: 75CL
This one was a worthy candidate at the Malt Maniacs Awards 2009! Time to publish my notes… Time flies! Blackadder had several of these 1973s and I especially liked cask 6861, bottled at 30yo (WF 90) Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon
Colour: full gold. Nose: lots of energy and a marvellous fruitiness that reminds me of several famous drams that were distilled around the same period (Benriach, Clynelish…) Superb notes of apricot jam, kumquats, orange blossom water, various honeys, tinned pears… Then there’s something faintly metallic (tin box), not unpleasant at all, and then the ‘mentholated cavalry’ (what?), as often with these old stunners. It’s all very lively and complex at the same time. Very sexy, I must say. Let’s drop water if you don’t mind… Mouth: these oldies can be tired on the palate and not match their fab noses – it’ not the case here, even if there’s quite some oak of course. I love these slightly resinous and mentholated notes, for instance, which give the malt a funnily oriental style.
There’s also quite some fruit jams and chestnuts, for example mango, as well as many spices, both soft and more, say solid. Cloves, cinnamon, star anise… All excellent! Finish: medium long, minty and fruity, getting maybe just a tad too tannic now (tea and melba toast). Comments: a big yet complex old Glenury of very high quality. It would have gone even higher without the slightly tannic aftertaste (which you wouldn’t get in middle-aged whisky that would have spent a lot of time in glass, but that’s another story, we’re not in Cognac!
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