THE REVIEW

A few of you Bourbon fans may be thinking, ‘he’s a bit late with this one.’ – Well yes, you’re kind of right, however, after I only recently purchased a few bottles did I find out that people were in a rush to pick up as many as they can due to it being discontinued. Coincidentally, I had a conversation with a BA for this brand and he assured me that there are palate’s of the stuff sitting around in UK warehouses – so that stopped me from dropping my savings account on some cases and I’m now going to open them all as that’s what it’s all about anyway! Elijah Craig, The Rolling Stone of barrel maturation, loads of people did the same thing but he is the most famous for it. Using it as a storage vessel, it’s only real intended purpose, one winter the Mississippi River froze over and he had stored his spirit in a barrel that had been charred either on purpose or by accident, history still can’t really decide on that yet and here we are today with the idea of charring wood and storing whisky for a maturation process. James Pepper experimented a with this stuff and a whole heap of other famous Bourbon-ites…(new word) – Twelve years old, 47% ABV and a nose that is dominant with white chocolate, maple syrup, breakfast waffles and everything else that I love in life. Cheers.