Kentucky Owl Confiscated Straight Bourbon

The nose is spiced—cinnamon allspice clove pepper—and rich with cooked fruit—blueberry jam stewed plums pomegranate molasses—as well as roasted peanuts vanilla and oak. In the mouth there’s more liveliness with Big Red gum cherry pie blackberry cobbler peanuts and cinnamon-apple coffee cake. It wraps up beautifully with chili-chocolate roasted nuts and cigar end. Kentucky Owl doesn’t disclose the ages of the bourbons used in this bottling but the balance of maturity on the nose and verve on the palate work to excellent effect.