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Texas upstart Milam & Greene continues to tear it up within the craft distillery world, its current Port-finished rye being extremely value trying out, the operation releasing each sourced whiskeys and its personal distillate (produced beneath the attention of grasp distiller Marlene Holmes) — typically with each forms of whiskey blended along with aplomb by CEO Heather Greene.
The distillery’s newest launch is the primary in a sequence referred to as, properly, The Citadel Hill Sequence. Designed as an ongoing sequence of numbered batches, it’s (for now) fully sourced, this batch representing a set of 20 barrels turned out at 13 years of age. I don’t have any information on the place that is sourced from, however i’m guessing it’s from Dickel. M&G provides no different details about what we’re consuming right here, so let’s see if we will at the very least provide you with one thing clever to say about it.
The nostril surprises, coming throughout as a lot youthful than I’d have guessed, providing a robust aroma of peanut shell, some lumberyard, and a punchy observe of dill, backed up with cloves. That inexperienced dill observe grows stronger with time in glass (which is what finally places me most clearly on the Dickel tip). The palate finds extra nuance, a number of peanut up entrance finally giving technique to notes of chewy nougat, almonds, and milk chocolate. It’s only a contact heat at bottle energy; a drop of water helps to indicate extra sweetness and plumps up the vanilla character, with touches of crimson berries (and many extra chocolate) on the end.
The nostril on Citadel Hill Batch 1 doesn’t actually tickle the senses, however the palate’s bought lots occurring. Whether or not it’s value a 50% premium (primarily based on right now’s costs) over Dickel’s award-winning 13 year old bonded expression… that’s one other dialogue.
108.5 proof.
A- / $120 / milamandgreene.com
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Milam & Greene The Citadel Hill Sequence Batch 1
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