Age: 20-year

Proof: 130.94 proof

Source: Tennessee 

Bottle count: 97 bottles

Tasting notes: This is one of the most unique Tennessee bourbons I’ve tasted.

This one only needs a minute in the glass before it starts to shift and morph.

Intense charred oak, Cheerwine, orange sherbet, and golden raisin lead on the nose before gooey Derby Pie and rickhouse funk take over.

The palate is engulfing, as I’d expect from 130 proof: peach ice cream, maraschino cherries, sweet milk chocolate, and a perfumed, mature oak that fully wraps the palate.

The pour continually saturates the tongue with semi-sweet chocolate, maple cream, sweet tobacco, and long, beautiful waves of mature oak that carry on and on. If Maker’s Mark aged to 20 years, I’d like to think it would taste something like this.