Peggy Noe Stevens – 8.4
Nose: Delicate granola and vanilla. Cardamon spice that rounds out quickly to engage the peach and golden apple notes. Some oak and toasty crouton.
Palate: Apples and almonds with some toffee overlay and slight caramel. Grits and cereal tones that balances the earthiness.
Finish: A sense refinement without overdoing the spice.
Comments: Easy to drink really, and nice silky frame that is enhanced by that handsome spice flavor.Susan Reigler – 8.3
Nose. Vanilla cupcake with light caramel icing. A second noising reveals notes of rye grass.
Palate: The flavors in the mouth emerge in the same pattern as on the nose with the vanilla and sweet notes (icing) followed by the spices. There's something floral here, too.
Finish: The spices play around the tongue for quite a while before giving way to some rye grass and a dry ending.
Comments: The proof point seems just right for the balance of flavors.
- American Whiskey (June 2019)
"This hybrid of wheat and rye aged four years shows a surge of white pepper and stone fruit on the nose with echoing aromatics of caramel-coated ripe red apple and peanut. Unctuous and generous, this 90-proof spirit coats the palate with wheat bread, coffee-cedar, and bright tones of tangerine and new leather. With a textural dreaminess on the finish, it lengthens with a lean note of minerality that’s similar to the sensation of sipping black tea. - Meridith May"
Nose: A far bigger and far richer nose than the Wheat whisky. Offering up ginger bread, cinnamon and dried fruit, you have all the subtlety of the wheat with the harder rye character fighting back.