Hi everyone,
So… I did a thing. Dave’s Whisky Reviews has expanded slightly into the YouTube domain. And the idea is a little different in that I’ll be blind reviewing stuff and giving a guess as to what it is. Which is nothing new on Reddit but hasn’t really been done before on YouTube. The idea is to keep it fun, get some stuff hideously wrong and look like a bit of an idiot. You can check out my video on this one here. Let me know what you think!
Background with this was that I was visiting California and wanted to pick up my first bottle of Bourbon since Jim Beam White. (shudders) This being a good price and me not having tried it yet, it fit the bill pretty well.
Knob Creek 9 Single Barrel 60%
Colour: Bronze
Body: Full
Nose: A little funky, bags of nuts, peanut, macadamia, cashew, salted caramel, a little alcohol covering anything else.
Water: Softer and a little more complex. Nice caramel, toffee and vanilla. Honey, biscuit, salted peanuts.
Taste: Intense, almost a buttery mouthfeel to start (which is lovely), then it's drier, caramel, peanut, some alcohol, some funk, oak, more nut then with cashews and trail mix, and peanuts again, more and more peanuts. Some black pepper too in places with floral notes.
Water: Much softer arrival, nice balance to this one with honeycomb, soft black pepper, chilli flakes, caramel, cashew and peanut. Some oak and dry orange come in but never becomes too much.
Finish: Long length. More peanuts and oak comes through, not that spicy really. A little spicier with water.
A good one for 50 bucks! A few drops of water and it comes together. For me, I don’t think I could have done much better at this price point.
77/100
Thanks for reading!
American Review #55
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