Widow Jane 10YO Bourbon, 45.5% – Whisky Wednesday.

THE REVIEW

It wouldn’t be long until this made it to the channel! Widow Jane 10YO Bourbon is a blend of 5 casks from a few different distilleries from across America. Sourcing stocks from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana, the batch never includes more than 5 barrels, but the percentage of what comes from where is never really published.

Based in Red Hook in Brooklyn, this is part whisky distillery and part chocolate factory. What more do you want! They do distil their own spirits and will have their own ten-year-old stocks for this product, possibly know, but I’m sure the intensity and design of the flavour won’t change.

This bourbon has so many qualities of Eagle Rare 17YO, but it is much easier to find for a more approachable price tag, too. It is heavy with blackberry, cherry, honey, red wine, orange oil, and Angostura bitters. It’s an absolute delight.

One of my favourite things about it is how the influence of oak is delivered through this whisky. It’s very forward and deliberate with the flavour of virgin oak casks, the start of the palate is spicy, oaky and a little drying, with all of these fruity, wine notes making themselves known as the flavour develops in your mouth. There aren’t a lot of other brands that also offer ten-year-old stocks in their bourbon and rye ranges, considering this has been sourced from three different states and then aged in Brooklyn heat before being blended there is a lot of options for flavour influence.

I really like this stuff. It can be a little expensive for everyone, but it’s something that you’ll never forget once you’ve tasted it.

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Aberfeldy 15YO Cadillac Wine Finish, 43%

https://youtu.be/87GXn5hTPU0

A review of the Aberfeldy 15 year old Cadillac French Wine cask finish single malt scotch whisky.

Sweet wine/dessert wines tend to have one key focus, that being Sauternes and Chateau’s such as D’yquem pull in all of the attention. However, the use of this style of sweet wine, Cadillac, introduces some deeper and more powerful flavours to what Aberfeldy can offer. Aberfeldy is typically a buttery, tropical, honeyed style of highland single malt, and still is. The influences of different styles of barrel on this spirit are rather impressive to see whilst still retaining its house profile.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 552: Cley Moscatel vs Secret Isle of Mull Cask

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries two single casks of Dutch whisky.  In September 2024, Paul and Maria from the Cley Distillery in Rotterdam bottled two 5-year-old single malts. The first matured in a cask that previously held Moscatel; the second underwent 3 years of maturation in a classic bourbon cask, followed by a finish in a cask from the Tobermory Distillery. Fascinating and undoubtedly very different. Mark is please to put them head-to-head.

https://youtu.be/zQLjEa4ywck

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Phil will return next week…….

The Good Dram Show – Episode 580 ‘Gleann Mor’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at a selection of releases from the Independent bottling company Gleann Mor. The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 580 – Today’s Gonna Be A Happy Bunny Day..!

Featuring

Gleann Mor ‘A Rare Find’ Aberfeldy 2011 (13 year old) 56.8%
Gleann Mor ‘Rare Find’ Cooley 2002 (19 year old) 53.8%
Gleann Mor ‘A Rare Find’ Deanston 2006 (18 year old) 54.3%
Gleann Mor ‘A Rare Find’ Glenglassaugh 2014 (10 year old) 54.2%
Gleann Mor ‘A Rare Find’ Isle of Jura 1989 (35 year old) 47.7%
Gleann Mor ‘A Rare Find’ Islay (Medium Peated) 2013 (11 year old) 55.8%

https://gmspirits.com