I’d like to thank ByrnePR and Lux Row for providing this review sample with no strings attached.
We are going to do something a little different tonight. Normally, my wife and I do tastings together and the published tasting notes are an amalgamation of each of our notes. Well, I couldn’t do that this week because my wife isn’t here. She is spending the week with her mother on a trip to Yellowstone National Park. Her mother had never been and wanted to go before she died. Not that my mother-in-law is in immediate danger of dying, but she is almost 80 years old. So there is only so much time left.
By a weird coincidence, last Friday, I got a sample of the latest edition of Yellowstone Limited Edition bourbon. I thought it only fitting to send a healthy sample with my wife so she could do her tasting notes of Yellowstone Bourbon while she visited Yellowstone National Park. As you can see in the photo above, I did mine at my desk.
My very dusty desk.
The 2021 edition of Yellowstone Limited features a mixture of seven-year-old and fifteen-year-old bourbons with some of the seven-year-old having been finished in Amarone wine casks. Amarone is a dry, rich, Italian red wine made from partially dried grapes and aged for at least in oak casks. The suggested retail price of the 2021 Yellowstone Limited Edition is $99.99.
So now, back to the something different. Since our tasting notes were conducted about 1000 miles apart and done with no interaction between the two of us. I thought it would be fun to publish both sets of notes without combining them.
Yellowstone Limited Edition Bourbon, 2021 edition
Purchase Info: This sample was sent by the producer for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $99.99.
Price per Drink (50 mL): $6.67
My Wife’s Notes
Nose: Vanilla, caramel, and cherry.
Mouth: Almond/cherry, caramel, cinnamon (spicy), and sweet baking spice.
Finish: Warm and medium length. Cinnamon and almond/cherry notes.
Thoughts: I love it!
My Notes
Nose: Vanilla ice cream, black cherry, and caramel.
Mouth: Dry and spicy. Notes of cinnamon, tobacco, brown sugar, and black pepper
Finish: Dry, spicy, and pretty long. Nutty with more cinnamon, cherry, and black pepper.
Thoughts: This is one of those bourbons that I enjoy much more in a "drinking glass" than I do in a tasting glass. Lucky for me, I hate drinking out of a Glencairn. My usual rocks glass accentuates the fruitier notes where the Glencairn seems to accentuate the drier aspects of the drink. This is pretty good. It isn't my favorite of the Yellowstone Limited releases, I like a sweeter whisky usually. But this is no slouch either.
Oh and this was the view out of my wife’s cabin at Old Faithful tonight.
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