← Uncle Nearest
Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey
- Age
- 7 years
- ABV
- 46.5%
Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Golden amber, translucent with a light yellow glow; lighter than the 1856, reflecting the younger minimum age
- Nose
- Honey and warm brown sugar, cedar, orange peel and tobacco flower. Ground ginger and white pepper. Bananas with sweet corn and dusty grain, lemon, cream custard, touch of flowers. Impossibly sweet with cotton candy, citrus, vanilla — like a freshly opened box of breakfast cereal
- Palate
- Soft and delicate start with butterscotch, honey, smoked wood and apples. Medium to thin texture. Caramel balanced with spicy wood tannins, baking chocolate, cigar leaf, nougat and cinnamon. Bright, vibrant, fruity and tropical with a little oak. Curated by 5th generation descendant Victoria Eady Butler. Pleasant at 93 proof with no heat
- Finish
- Long and smooth finish with cinnamon lingering along with dark chocolate, oak tannins and maple syrup. Sweet undertones persist
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- New American oak barrels
- Lincoln County Process charcoal mellowed
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