Made it through another Monday - sooner or later, I'll be done with Mondays (: Anyway... day 6 of 24 Days of Whisk(e)y, today we have 1792 Bottled in Bond, Single Barrel Select Barrel #5918, Store Pick from Baseline Liquor, 50% ABV. How is the pick? Let's find out...
On the nose I get hints of rye spice, some caramel, vanilla, and a touch of dill - in the background, for a lack of a better term, I get dirt. The taste, lots of wood, spicy, peppery, hints of nut/peanut in the back, damp cut grass and earth. The finish I get wood and pepper, and it hangs around quite a bit.
This has an odd taste and finish that is hard to describe. I don't particularly like it, and I went back to it later in the evening to see if it's still there. It triggers a memory of my youth of line trimming dry weeds with a line trimmer - which isn't necessarily what I'm looking for in my whiskey. I'll give it another try down the road, but for now this is just too 'earthy' for me.
Overall, this is quite woody, and I'd like to try a non-store pick to see if the flavor profile is much different. Rated 3.0 / 5.0 - mostly because I feel that if I'm in the right mood, this could hit some good notes for me, otherwise it would be lower.
On edit - over time, this got even worse ... I was never in the mood for it. 2.0/5.0 ... barely drinkable - even in mixed drinks.
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