William Larue Weller Bourbon bottled 2010
Rolls Royce Bourbon
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Review by @OJK
- Nose24
- Taste23
- Finish23
- Balance24
- Overall94
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- Brand: W. L. Weller
- Type: American
- ABV: 63.3%
Nose: Total banana-bread goodness. Dark chocolate truffle, burnt marshmallow, corn candy, honey and ginger. Just a festival of sweet indulgence, yet underneath there's a level of complexity that really confirms this bourbon as the rolls royce of its league. Eucaplyptus, wet cardboard, fresh paint, wood sap, and kahlua-infused coffee. Sumptuous.
Taste: A big oak wave of spice to wake the senses. Leather, tobacco smoke, raw yellow pepper and jalapeƱo sting. And as if in reverse of the proceedings on the nose, this beautiful layer of spice is underpinned by a sweet bed of caramel, banana sherbet, mocha, mint chocolate, almonds and burnt marshmallow. This is bourbon at its complex best, operating very much on a world-class level.
Finish: Long and expansive with a chilli-spice kick. All sorts of new flavours also coming to the fore - raw courgette, cold cigar smoke, date paste, aniseed spice, strawberry liquorice, burnt caramel and salted almonds.
Balance: Despite its high strength and immensely dense flavour profile, it's actually quite light-bodied and even refreshing. There's a lot of wonderful facets to its character that can be endlessly explored upon each new sip, and the invigorating spice kick is both entertaining and complex within itself, as there is a subtlety and layered quality to the Weller spice. This is a truly great bourbon that has everything, almost combining all the best elements of a great corn whiskey, as well of those of rye whiskey. Exceptional.
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Not sure what happened with the review title there - this was for a William Larue Weller 2010 bottling.