Weller Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey

Appearance: A rosy copper. Shiny as a liquid can be without being viscous. More on the gold-to-green spectrum of copper than reddish-fire copper.

Nose: This is super-fragrant. It got me when I opened the bottle. I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s enticing. In the glass, it is fragrant, like stumbling into that first cup of coffee. But it doesn’t smell like coffee, it smells like its rhyming twin, toffee. Vanilla, browned butter, a little bit like fresh paper pages of a new hardback book you’re dying to read. Also cherries, but mixed with creamy sweetness, like cherry vanilla ice cream.

Palate: I like this! It’s not as sweet on the palate as you’d expect. It is 97 proof and doesn’t pretend it isn’t (I find that refreshing). On the palate it’s less cherry vanilla ice cream and more…savory, almost? I get wintergreen on the front and a bit of fire on the back. You know what this is like? Have you ever had candied ginger, the non-sugar-coated one? And you eat a few pieces, and like, two are sweet but then you get that one super-potent, fiery one? Hat’s what this is.

48.5% ABV