Michter's 10 Year Rye - 2023

The whiskey offers up aromas of bubble gum, fruity esters, acetone, browned biscuit, rye grain, pekoe tea, spearmint gum, cotton candy/confectioner's sugar and buttercream. It's a challenge to stop nosing and get on to tasting it. If beautiful music had aromas, this is what it would smell like. A single sip shows off its super-soft mouthfeel, and as always, this whiskey is precision balanced with no single flavor rushing to the fore. Soon enough, though, toasted oak emerges arm and arm with candied cherry, sugar maple candy and graham cracker. Further sips deliver a bit of campfire and the tiniest bit of sulfur at the end. The finish is medium length, nicely spicy and pleasantly drying.