Tasting Panel Notes

About Velvet Lactone: The Master Distiller who crafted this gorgeous Arkansas whiskey is now at Angel’s Envy in Kentucky, and his “legacy” casks are incredible. The mash bill of locally grown grain creates a sweet distillate framed by 8 years in char #4 American oak. Treat your bourbon-loving friends to a blind taste of this bottle and watch them go wild. 

Tasting Panel Note: The Panel agreed this was a wonderful nose: hugely inviting, with notes of resinous hardwoods, sweet liquorice, fennel bulb and eucalyptus. We also noted menthol and camphor balm, zesty orange liqueur, strawberry wine and sweet coconut. With water it became more aromatically complex as we got mothballs, cigar humidor, barley extract, hickory chips and more camphor. The neat palate glowed with spiced orange cordials, big creamy American sweetness fused with warm cupboard spices, and medicinal oak phenolics. Reduction brought caraway, red liquorice, pomegranate molasses and pure clove spice before a hint of smoky chilli and date chutney in the aftertaste.

USA allocation: 90 bottles