Distiller: Pepper DistilleryRelease: 2021Whiskey: Old Pepper Rye WhiskeyRegion: Lexington, KYPrice: $55.00Proof: 108.4Age: 4 years About the Bourbon: Assessment: Old Pepper Rye is an easy drinker. It’s smooth in both texture and flavor, boasting plentiful sweet notes and a fantastic creamy nature. While it may not be the bold, spicy rye some seek, it remains a…
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Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select
Distiller: Jack Daniel’s Release: 2023 Whiskey: Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select Region: Lynchburg, TN Price: $45.00 Proof: 94 Age: No Age Statement The Barrel Cellar Score: 88 Points Review Date: 01/05/2024 About the Bourbon: Jack Daniel’s is a legendary name in American whiskey, with a history and reputation that go beyond the bottle. The brand uses a distinctive charcoal mellowing process,…
Short Barrel Single Barrel Rye
Distiller: Unknown Release: 2023 Whiskey: Single Barrel Rye Whiskey Region: Norcross, GA Price: $69.00 Proof: 118.6 Age: 5 years The Barrel Cellar Score: 91 Points Review Date: 12/30/2023 About the Bourbon: Short Barrel is a company that produces and sells bourbon and rye whiskey. It was founded by two friends who decided to buy some barrels of bourbon, label it…
Huling Station Single Barrel
Distiller: Old Dominick Distillery Release: 2022 Whiskey: Straight Bourbon Whiskey Region: Memphis, Tn Price: $59.00 Proof: 110.38 Age: 6 years The Barrel Cellar Score: 86 Points Review Date: 11/02/2023 About the Bourbon: Old Dominick Spirits was a booming business in Memphis Tennessee Pre-Prohibition. Old Dominick Spirit’s is now the only entirely distilled, barreled, aged, and bottled bourbon in Memphis. I recently grabbed…
Pursuit United Bourbon Whiskey
Distiller: Various Release: 2021 Whiskey: Pursuit United Region: Bottled in Louisville, Ky Price: $59.00 Proof: 108 Age: 4 + years The Barrel Cellar Score: 85 Points Review Date: 10/25/2023 About the Bourbon: The guys behind the Pursuit United podcast (which is well regarded by many bourbon enthusiasts) have ventured into blending and marketing their own line of whiskies. Today I’m reviewing their Pursuit…
Blue Note “Juke Joint Whiskey”
Distiller: B.R. distilling Release: 2022 Whiskey: Straight Bourbon Whiskey Region: Memphis, Tennessee Price: $49.99 Proof: 120.1 Age: No age statement The Barrel Cellar Score: 89 Points Review Date: 07/29/2023 About the Bourbon: Blue Note Straight Bourbon Whiskey was distilled in Kentucky (unknown source) and aged/bottled in Memphis Tennessee. While there is no age statement on the bottle, it is reportedly aged a minimum…
Nulu Double Oaked Bourbon
Distiller: MGP Release: 2022 Whiskey: Double Oaked Straight Bourbon Whiskey Region: Lawrenceburg, Indiana Price: $59.99 Proof: 120 Age: No age statement The Barrel Cellar Score: 87 Points Review Date: 09/25/2022 About the Bourbon: The Nulu offering I’m reviewing today is an uncut and unfiltered double oaked bourbon. The term double oaked means that it was finished for four months in a second barrel….
Copper and Cask
Distiller: MGP Release: 2022 Whiskey: Bourbon Region: Lawrenceburg, Indiana Price: $50.00 Proof: 114.2 Age: 5 years The Barrel Cellar Score: 87 Points Review Date: 03/29/2023 About the Bourbon: Any bourbon connoisseur knows MGP distilling. MGP has been distilling since 1847, they are probably best known for distilling, aging, and selling various bourbon and rye whiskies to brand name producers….
Smoke Wagon Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Distiller: Nevada H&C Distilling Co Release: 2021 Whiskey: Smoke Wagon Region: Las Vegas Price: $40.00 Proof: 92.5 Age: No Age Statement The Barrel Cellar Score: 87 Points Review Date: 03/01/2023 About the Bourbon: Smoke Wagon Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a blended bourbon. It’s produced by Nevada H&C distilling which has received acclaim for it’s more limited and high proof bourbons since its…
Larceny Barrel Proof C921
Distiller: Old Fitzgerald Release: 2021 Whiskey: Larceny Barrel Proof C921 Region: Bardstown, Ky Price: $55.00 Proof: 122.6 Age: 6-8 years The Barrel Cellar Score: 93 Points Review Date: 02/21/2023 About the Bourbon: From the bottle – John E Fitzgerald was a treasury agent, who at the time, was the only person legally allowed to carry keys to the rick houses. He often…
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