Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year Old Bourbon 2008 / Stitzel Weller

Description

Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year Old Bourbon 2008 / Stitzel Weller

“This bourbon was crafted according to our exclusive family wheated recipe. The smooth, oak flavor blends well with the barrel proof. Selected from barrels in the heart of our Kentucky warehouse, this bourbon has remained untouched for 15 years and unhurried by time.” 

Tasting Notes-

Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year Old Bourbon

See a hazy, copper color. Taste a rich, supple entry, leading to a decadent, huge, full-bodied palate with intense caramel, toffee and peppery brown spice flavors. Then, enjoy a finish with an extreme, long, complex, evolving fade of spice and wood notes. Experts deem it a seductive, exotic and virtually flawless bourbon.

Color: Tawny.

Nose: Fresh apples dominate this, there’s basically nothing else that comes through other than it. Every now and again, there’s a sweet vanilla note but that quickly gets overtaken by the apples.

Palate: There’s bits of cherry here and there. Gingerbread cookies is one of the stand out notes here with nutmeg and cinnamon mixing in well hints of ginger. No sign of any icing though to go with them though. Then comes the oak, way too much oak for me. With a little bit of water, the cherry note becomes much sharper but it feels like I’m biting into a slightly unripe cherry.

Finish: Long. The nutmeg from the palate lingers for ages along with far too much oak.