Tennessee’s Chattanooga Whiskey cranks out its bottled-in-bond releases twice every year, to the purpose the place it’s getting arduous for us to maintain up with them (although this “Spring” launch solely hit the market in October). It’s the seventh bonded Chattanooga and, as with its prior releases, it’s a completely totally different development from people who have come earlier than.
This launch consists of whiskeys with 5 totally different mashbills, together with three variations of Chattanooga’s wheated recipe (B005, B005v2, B005v3) which comprise a number of styles of malted wheat and malted barley by no means earlier than used on this mashbill, together with honey malted barley and cherrywood smoked malted barley. These are half the invoice, with SB091 (yellow corn, malted rye, caramel malted barley, honey malted barley) and SB055 (yellow corn, malted rye, double roasted caramel malted barley, pale chocolate malted barley) comprising the opposite half of the invoice.
That’s so much to swallow, so let’s see how this completed product pans out.
Immediately you possibly can let you know’re moving into one thing very, very totally different — and sure fairly divisive.
The nostril is instantly wealthy, nearly insanely so, laden with aggressive notes of prune, spice, and furnishings polish — turning tarry and gritty because it develops on the glass. Over time, the impression turns into slightly smoky — maybe an outsized impression from the smoked barley within the mash — with burning greenery and an enormous quantity of rye spice punching issues up. Welcome to the frontier!
The palate arrives with a daring assault of purple fruit, adopted by dates and prunes, however that’s fleeting. From right here it’s a fast slide again into these greener notes, with intense parts of fresh-cut rye grass, toasted hay, and smoldering underbrush dominant. All advised it’s slightly robust and tough, that includes a end that melds asphalt and burnt marshmallow, giving the whiskey a lingering creosote high quality. Undercooked and greater than slightly scattered, it’s positively too over-the-top for my preferences in bourbon, although followers of this sort of in-your-face type might have a a lot totally different impression.
100 proof.
B / $53 / chattanoogawhiskey.com
Chattanooga Whiskey Bottled in Bond Fall 2019 Classic
$53
