Four Roses Small Batch Limited Edition 2016 Review
Editor's Note: This whiskey was provided to u.s. equally acomplimentary sample to review past the party behind it. The Whiskey Wash, while appreciative of this, did keep full independent editorial control over thisarticle.
Kentucky-based whiskey writers are a lucky lot. Not merely exercise we get new release samples well ahead of the general press and the public, they're sometimes hand delivered to our offices, as happened last calendar week with the 2016 Four Roses Limited Edition Small-scale Batch.
As the name states, this is a Small Batch, meaning the bottling is the end product of multiple comingled barrels. Iv Roses' master distiller Brent Elliott chose an undisclosed number of 12-year-quondam casks containing the distillery's OESO recipe and OBSV recipes, besides as its 16-yr-old OESK recipe. The alloy was bottled at barrel strength, 111.2 proof.
According to a news release, Elliott selected the OESO recipe as the blend's anchor recipe because his tasting console was "able to highlight its exceptional fruitiness and balance it out with more age and spice from the 2 other recipes."
If you're non a 4 Roses nerd (which is a cool nerd, by the style), know that E = its high-corn brew beak of 75 per centum corn, 20 percent rye and five percent malted barley, and O = one of its v yeast strains known best for its "rich fruitiness, light vanilla, caramel and full bodied" accents.
Four Roses' tasting notes on this release mention "sweet red and crisp green apples, mingled with rich apricot and structured rye aromas. Tart citrus flavors greet the palate, so requite manner to hints of sweet molasses, peppery spices and decadent crème brulée. The finish is long and gentle, with frail honey and light mint."
Based on that, "Due east" made quite a stand on the palates of the distillery's tasting panel.
I and a friend, who happened by the twenty-four hour period I got my sample, did not read that info before our sipping and nosing, yet we found many similarities, especially aromas of stone fruit, cherry, spearmint and toasted forest, and rich flavors of toffee, oak and custard. The texture was lush and creamy on the palate, which gave way to a slightly dry out finish. As he finished his pour, my friend muttered, "Balanced, really balanced."
The Lawrenceburg, Ky., distillery said 9,258 paw-numbered bottles volition exist released in the U.S. only, and that fans could look forward to it on retailer'southward shelves by mid-September. No toll was mentioned in the news release, but given that concluding year's Modest Batch retailed for $129, it's likely to cost similarly. Doubtless, serious "Fo-Ro" fans volition line upwards for this release when it becomes bachelor at its souvenir shops on Sept. 16.
Fun note: Last year, a fan drove seven hours through the dark from Michigan to exist first in line for the release at 4:30 a.yard. At 8 a.m. that 24-hour interval, Elliott, then the newly anointed master distiller, was serving hot coffee to him and the 40 others who'd queued behind him. Aye, Kentucky whiskey people are hospitable folk.
Tasting Notes: 2016 Four Roses Limited Edition Pocket-size Batch Bourbon
Vital Stats: 111.2 proof. Blend of 12- and 16-year bourbons. 75% corn; 20% rye, 5% malted barley. No cost fix.
Appearance: Golden, wide-spaced legs.
Olfactory organ: Stone fruit, cherry and some apricot, spearmint and toasted forest.
Palate: Rich flavors of toffee, oak and custard. Texture is lush and flossy on the palate. At this proof, it brings a piddling heat, but a rest in the glass cools that some while amplifying the dark fruit notes and caramel. Adding a few drops of h2o to a pocket-sized taste makes the whiskey velvety at mid-palate.
Finish: Slightly dry, notwithstanding piece of cake all the way downward, even at such as sturdy proof.
Final Thoughts:
I like this release far improve than the 2015 Four Roses Limited Edition Small-scale Batch, which was hot on my palate despite a lower 108 proof. My Whiskey Wash colleague, still, loved it, which is office of why whiskey sipping is so fun. There's e'er something for everyone.
Score: 90/100 [Store FOR A BOTTLE OF 2016 FOUR ROSES Limited EDITION Pocket-size BATCH BOURBON]
Source: https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/bourbon/whiskey-review-2016-four-roses-limited-edition-small-batch-bourbon/
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