The George Dickel Barrel Select Sour Mash Tennessee Whisky

750 ml recurring dream bottle

George-Dickel-Barrel-Select-Sour-Mash-Tennessee-Whisky

Tasting notes:
We’ve noted some pumpernickel overtones in the Dickel lineup. But it is not present here. Or perhaps it’s safer to say that there’s a bolder nose that obscures it. Think of the way that a crisp IPA can be so hop-forward that the maltiness cowers in the background. I’m getting that with the brilliant spice on the nose, like spices heated up on a cast-iron pan. Cucumber pickle in a bird’s eye chili pepper brine. Whole lemons in a sangria spiked with cologne. Lemur-leather thimble sleeves sold as souvenirs, but only rarely to lemurs.

On the mouth it’s a mentholated cough syrup with a liquefied cayenne pepper floater. This wave of spice quickly gives way to a caramelly smoothness, like a cigar wrapped in sugar-dusted tobacco leaves. A fusion of celery and cilantro notes, if they had a forbidden love affair. Chewy and full, with the persistence of a treacly butterscotch bar.

The finish is a salted-caramel candy used as the base and chief ingredient of a magical chili. (Beans, beans! / the magical fruit! / The more you eat /) –No, no, no! Not magical in that way. It’s lots of umami riding as if on a magic carpet, just hovering off the ground. In this recurring dream I’m a goat on a hang glider sailing out over the ocean horizon in search of more Dickel Barrel Select to fill my glass.

 

Rating:

On the scale of things that are even better than you think they’d be–
The George Dickel Barrel Select Sour Mash Tennessee Whisky is Goat Simulator–In other words, it’s a multi-platform joy unto itself interest in which has grown through social media and word of mouth.

 

                                                  –John

  


–Our thanks to George Dickel Tennessee Whisky for the sample!

 

 

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