Bulleit Original Bourbon

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 19 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Leather saddlery, tobacco. Palate Firm. Smooth. Rich. Very pronounced vanilla, and honey (promised on the neck label, I discover). Some Madeira-like wineyness, too. Finish Late tar-like smokyness. Gunsmoke? Comment The cowboy allusions on the neck-label suggest a rough, frontier whisky. Maybe this soothing spirit is just for urban cowboys. It has more of the blacktop than the Badlands.

Dave Broom Nose Feisty and intense with some citrus oil, Seville orange, banana, maple syrup, smoke and sagebrush fires. Palate Perfumed start: a whiff of dried lavender, singed orange peel, dusty spice cupboards. Finish A whipcracking lash Comment Old-style, teeth-sucking stuff. If this was a singer it would be Merle Haggard. A great cocktail base.