Bardstown Bourbon Co. x Bourbon Lore Collaboration

Age: Blend of 7 to 12 year-old bourbon

Proof: 112.5 proof

Bottle Count: 1,752 bottles (total batch)

Fine Details: blend of 4 different Kentucky straight whiskeys, 10 barrels total

Tasting Notes: The nose is lively and inviting - fresh raspberries, fragrant peach skin and flesh, saturating luxardo cherry syrup, all with a pleasing vanilla cream sweetness and fresh wood aromas on the initial pass. With a bit more time in the glass you notice touches of more subtle notes like toffee, pecan pie (filling and crust), cedar box, fresh tobacco leaf, and damp rick house. The more it opens the more fruit punch-like it grows.

The palate saturates with dried cherry and raspberry initially before semi-sweet chocolate, charred oak, and waves of spice come in. It soaks thick into the palate and lingers for some time.

The finish is the best part as musty, slightly dusty oak begins to blanket the palate with nips of ginger, cinnamon, and black peppercorn drying slightly with an oaky, toffee, tart cherry long linger.