Daviess County Bourbon (circa 1982) Tasting Notes and Ratings.

Daviess County Bourbon (circa 1982)

Added on Monday, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:38 PM

Bottler:

Medley Distillery

Age:	4 yrs	Type:	American
Vintage:	N/A	Subtype:	Bourbon
ABV:	43.00 %	Region:	Kentucky
Price:	N/A	Availability:	Collectors Only

A Bourbon from the closed Medley distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Member Ratings and Notes

Sku

Nose: Very nice nose; sweet Bourbon with wood polish and oak. Palate: I was expecting big woody/chewy complexity from the nose but it's actually more of the light and smooth variety with sweet candy flavors and just a bit of oak. The finish goes back to the woody qualities of the nose. A decent Bourbon worth trying but not overly complex.

Chris

D: Different. Doesn't smell particularly rye'd or wheated.   Smells a bit waxy, some workshop smells (grease, glue, acetone), funky wood.   Weird, but not necessarily bad.
P: Eeeeeh, hmmmm.   Oily, sweet, and peculiar. Definitely seems to be some rye flavor here, but there's an off-taste that dominates.   It tastes sort of like mold smells, if they makes any sense. That fades after a while...
F: Bitter and tannic.
This isn't awful, but it's not good. I can say than for a 4 year old, it has a heck of a lot more flavor than a lot of the thin junk out there today.   But I think there's some heavy oils in here that aren't so tasty, and the nose scares me a bit, it just smells wrong.

Josh

NOSE
Old Bottle Effect (musty), tangerine-like citrus, oak, cornbread, caramel and root beer float.

PALATE
OBE, caramel, vanilla, tangerine-like citrus, root beer, grain sweetness and bits of spice, oak and menthol.

FINISH
Med-short -> Caramel, wood, spice and menthol.

It doesn’t have that oaky depth most of your basic bourbons of today have, like Wild Turkey 101 or Evan Williams BiB, but it has character.

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