Age: 5-year

Proof: 115.8

Bottle count: 186

Tasting Notes: A beautiful off-profile barrel. Plenty of smoked vanilla, leather, and candied bacon jam on the nose here. Underneath that, dark raspberry jam and perfumed oak.

The palate leads with savory bacon jam, but continues with smoked caramels and vanillas. While fruit isn’t the focus, raspberry and dark cherry do lay low in the foundation of the sips much like on the nose. Continued sips draw out well seasoned oak, and a slight bit of herbal vanilla.

The finish carries toasted marshmallows and chocolate, long lasting and continually bouncing between savory and sweet. If you manage to give amp time between your sips, you are rewarded with a long linger of dried oak,  sweet cream puff, and remnants of those more savory notes as an after thought.