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Review: Bardstown Bourbon The Prisoner Wine Collaboration II

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Bardstown Bourbon Firm is again with spherical two of its collaboration with The Prisoner Wine Firm. Just like the inaugural release final yr, this one is completed for a whopping 18 months in French oak pink wine barrels used to age the vineyard’s flagship mix, The Prisoner. The one distinction right here is that the sourced Tennessee bourbon has, unsurprisingly, aged one other yr (it’s now a 10-year-old product). We loved the primary version of this collaboration, so let’s see what one other yr of getting older has completed for this one.

Like the primary installment, the nostril on this newest Prisoner collaboration doesn’t present a whole lot of the ending barrel. As a substitute, a traditional Tennessee profile of cream corn, peanut butter, and toffee presents itself with fairly a little bit of richness and bready depth. Because it opens, some delicate pink fruits emerge, however as with final yr, they arrive throughout muddled and quite subdued.

Once more, like its predecessor, the palate is the converse of that have, exhibiting a bunch of distinctive parts from the cask ending. It’s immediately vibrant and wine-forward, at instances a contact bitter, with dried pink fruits, currants, and grape should. A little bit of incense and chai spice spring into the mid-palate, solely to present manner quite rapidly to espresso grinds and chocolate biscuits. Beneath all of it, the bottom bourbon remains to be in a position to showcase an oily, earthy richness with notes of peanut shells and salted caramel. On the end, there’s much less of the Mexican chocolate from the primary launch, however that daring fortified wine character has carried via, nonetheless lingering with a substantial, but mild, warmth.

It’s all considerably stunning given the deceiving aroma, and the juxtaposition of flavors could be a bit jarring. Spectacular, nonetheless, and price exploring, particularly for followers of completed bourbons.

100 proof.

B+ / $125 / bardstownbourbon.com [BUY IT NOW FROM DRIZLY]

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Bardstown Bourbon The Prisoner Wine Collaboration II

$125

Score

8.5/10

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