Michter's Distillery Michter's 10 Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straignt Bourbon NV 750ml

There’s evident age here, with dried leaves, old suede jacket, and dusty oak at the forefront, but underlying that maturity is plenty of dried fruit, figs, and cola. It pours broad and mouth filling, exuding both power and grace as it delivers caramel, tobacco, and a mélange of baking spices — cloves and nutmeg. The solid wood structure and oak tannins are here in abundance, but never out of balance.

Orange hue. Initial sniffings detect a delightfully foral (juniper and honeysuckle) surface perfume that overrides deeper scents of sedary oak and sweet grain mash but doesn’t conceal them completely; later inhalations feature spicy baking scents of ginger, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Palate entry is sweet, luxurious and borderline fat; midpalate is slightly smoky, resiny, semisweet and delicious. Aftertaste is long, focused, piney, woody and moderately sweet.