Woodford Reserve Sonoma-Cutrer Finish

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 67 by Dave Broom and Dominic Roskrow.

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Tasting Notes

Dave Broom Nose Odd. Bread and butter pudding, soft fudge. Behind a dry grassiness teetering into off notes. Becomes cloying with water. Cold caramel pudding. Palate Oxidised wine, blackberry and in time a buttermilk sourness. Clumsy. Finish Claggy. Comment Very poor. Still, after this and the Buffalo Trace experiments we can say that bourbon and Chardonnay don’t mix. So, let’s move on.

Dominic Roskrow Nose Lightweight, grassy, over-ripe fluffy apple. Palate Winey, young fruit, more wet grass than bluegrass. Finish Over-polite for a bourbon. Comment An oddball. Like an over-thin model:neither very attractive and not much in the way of body.