Van Winkle reviews

Tried this slightly older version with the 2012 20 y.o. Pappy and for me, although the 2012 Pappy 20 wins in the nose department this edges it every so slightly as a better rounded and balanced Bourbon…

Many thanks to @numen for the reviewed sample, which is from bottle C 7390. Nose: strong intensity, sweet wheat/oak combined flavours. Lots of vanilla and perfume of roses. A very lovely nose. Water…

Black licorice, caramel, chocolate, honey, and maple syrup adorn the very dark nose. Another review hit the nail on the head with furniture polish! Unctuous and chewy on the palate. Along with the bea…

Nose: considering the strength the nose is quite smooth and soft, notes of buttered wheat crackers, smooth caramel, buttered corn and butterscotch, some sappy sweetness. Palate: Very sweet, big notes of…

Color: Gold, tinge of copper Nose: apple pie, cinnamon, some combination of varnish and paint thinner, vanilla extract, some oak and wood dust.Palate: medium-thick. honey, light caramel, oak. there are…

Pappy Van Winkle 20 yo Bourbon is, like all of the Van Winkle Bourbons, one of the 5% or so of bourbons which are made with wheat instead of rye as the "flavoring grain". This bottle was distilled at the…

Pappy Van Winkle 15 yo bourbon has legions of rabid US fans who buy up every available bottle of it when it is released in the US in the fall and, usually also, in the spring of each year. The Stitzel…

The late Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle is one of the great icons of American whiskey. Beloved for his bourbon, rye, and witticisms such as “We make fine bourbon/At a profit if we can/At a loss if we…

"Lot B" 12 year old Van Winkle Family Reserve bourbon is, like all of the other Van Winkle bourbons, a wheated bourbon,i.e. a bourbon containing wheat as the "flavouring grain" instead of the rye which…

All of the Van Winkle products are wheat formula bourbons with the exception of this 13 year old Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye Whiskey. Nose: Black cherry and plums. This is mostly strong fruit with an…