Review: Barrell Vantage

We’re again once more with yet one more particular launch from Barrell Craft Spirits, and this one is all in regards to the wooden, three several types of wooden, in actual fact. I’ll let Barrell provide the deets:

Vantage is a mix of straight bourbons completed in three distinct expressions of virgin oak: Mizunara, French, and toasted American oak casks. The result’s a heat, elegant bourbon that highlights the numerous dimensions of oak.
 
The BCS group has drawn on years of expertise with three-part barrel ending, used beforehand in Armida, Dovetail, and Seagrass. With Vantage, those self same strategies have been utilized to the oak itself, utilizing completely different char ranges, toast ranges, and oak origins to create a multidimensional mix.
 
Every part whiskey in Vantage is completed individually, then systematically mixed in keeping with a mixing course of fueled in equal elements by a scientific method, expertise, creativity, and experimentation. This course of focuses on the wooden traits and the particular taste contributions that every cask contributes to the mix. The result’s a masterfully blended, completely balanced illustration of the harmonious synergy between bourbon and barrel.

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I suppose I’m not stunned that Barrell wouldn’t be content material with only a run-of-the-mill double-oaked expression. Let’s test Vantage out.

The aroma is sultry and woody, showcasing the wide range of recent casks within the mix with ample spice and barrel char. Asian spices, pipe tobacco, and dusty incense give the nostril a dry edge and skew issues towards the savory finish of the spectrum, however notes of chocolate-covered macaroons and Cherry Coke supply some distinction given a little bit of time to open. The palate is oily with a wealthy, caramelized sugar sweetness. There’s a little bit of purple pepper spice on the mid-palate that shortly turns to extra baking spice and a little bit of stone fruit earlier than receding into ginger snaps and pie spice on the warming and beneficiant end. With so many alternative barrels competing for consideration, it’s remarkably even keeled with the stability and depth of a very well-aged bourbon and the vibrancy of one thing youthful and a bit extra unique. My favourite of the Barrell particular releases up to now.

114 proof.

A / $90 [BUY IT NOW FROM DRIZLY]

Barrell Vantage

$90

Score

9.5/10

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Drew Beard

Drew Beard is Assistant Editor and Social Media Supervisor for Drinkhacker. He has studied and written about beer, whisk(e)y, and different spirits since he first began ingesting them, incomes a number of booze-related benefit badges alongside the best way, together with Licensed Specialist in Spirits and Govt Bourbon Steward. A recovering Federal authorities worker, he’s joyful to have lastly discovered a profession the place it’s acceptable to drink on the job.

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