Oppidan Four Grain Straight (Batch 001)

The nose has berries in steel-cut oatmeal bracing vanilla bubble gum strawberry Fanta and yet also rugged earthiness: a picnic in a pine forest. On the palate the grain is evident but so too is drying oak orange cinnamon and chocolate. Water helps integrate the flavors and enhance the silky mouthfeel tying in Orange Crush cinnamon and espresso on the finish. At 2 years old this bourbon is youthful but balanced a well-constructed iteration of the four-grain (corn wheat rye malted barley) motif.