Belle Meade Bourbon Belle Meade Bourbon NV 750ml

Nose offers a combination of vanilla and baking spices, dry oak and a red wine influence, along with light mint and herbal notes. The palate is rich, with more vanilla, dark red fruits and wine tannins, oak, clover honey, and rye spice. A moderate length finish continues on the sweet and rich sweet side, with vanilla, char, chocolate, brown sugar, and just a touch of black pepper. Delicious, and an excellent job interweaving the Madeira influence with the bourbon itself.

This addictive high-rye Bourbon, the first offering from the reincarnated Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery, offers a pleasing caramel scent and dark, spicy flavors that evoke toffee and gingerbread, plus a citrusy tartness around the edges that leads into a mellower vanilla note.

The high rye content in this bourbon gives up flashes of cinnamon imperials, apricots, orange marmalade, and cherry wood notes. Versatile as a sipper, on the rocks, or as a cocktail base.