West Cork Black Reserve

The double-charred first-fill bourbon casks deliver Madagascan vanilla paste dark-roast cocoa beans caramelized sugars and a wedge of pecan pie. Heightened vanilla flavors maple syrup a little chocolate coffee grains sweet char and those dark sticky softening pecans prized from the pie. Alternately sucking on vanilla pods and chewing leather bootstraps describes the finish. A one-trick pony some might say but it’s a highly distinctive and impressive steed all the same. (4800 bottles)