The whiskey from Washington is a true gem, even at this entry-point level. Woodinville is finally getting wider, nationwide releases and we’re all better for it. Palate: The caramel thickens to a buttery and rich toffee with notes of dark chocolate peeking in next to more of those woody spices and a vanilla oil velvetiness.įinish: The end is long and really embraces the sweeter edges of the vanilla pudding while allowing the spice to warm the senses.
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Nose: You’re greeted with a thick vanilla pudding with caramel candy and a cedar box full of dark spices. The results are batched and proofed down with local water to a very welcoming 90 proof. The hot juice spends years in the toasted and heavily charred barrels maturing until it’s just right (around five years in total). The Washington whiskey is made with those same family farm grains. This much-lauded bourbon is Woodinville’s touchstone expression. Woodinville Straight Bourbon Whiskey Woodinville That said, there are some bourbons on this list that you can find worldwide - so it all balances out. You’re not going to find a few of these outside of distillery shops or local liquor stores. But this list is about the good stuff that you can find, depending on how close or far you are from the source. To be clear, I do get that there’s also plenty of bad shit out there. As we said, there’s a lot of this stuff being made right now - it’s a full-on boom! And still, with less than 10% of bourbon coming from all 49 states, it wasn’t all that hard to find 100 killer bottles to list here. That said, most of it is made there (well over 90%). There’s no parameter or law requiring it to be made in Kentucky. You see, bourbon just needs to be made in the U.S.A. Today, I’m calling out 100 great bourbons from all over the U.S.A. So let us help with your whiskey collection curation. It’s mindboggling and, at times, frustrating when trying to actually figure out what the hell to buy and drink. That’s 200 bottles of bourbon that are all very good to great. There’s so much, in fact, that I can call out 100 great Kentucky bourbons one day and another 100 bourbons not from Kentucky the next. In 2023, it’s actually appropriate to use the word “plethora” when describing the number of bourbon labels on the shelf (which means an “overabundance” or “excess” and not just “a lot”). To say that there’s a lot of bourbon on the shelves these days would be a massive understatement.
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