Jefferson's Presidential Reserve 21 yr Bourbon

[tigerlam92]

How long did it stay at each port of call to get an effect? I guess I'm a little Hawaiian after doing the 15 days cruise. Or perhaps, my sweat probably tasted a little different at each country I've been too.

I'll be interested to hearing about or tasting the JPS21 rye. I think Luther had a thread on this a long while back.

[scratchline]

When someone asked Hemingway how he could slag off From Here to Eternity without having read it, he responded, "I don't have to swim a river of s--t to know it stinks."

Put me in the "gimmick" column on the Ocean.

-Mike

[P&MLiquorsEric]

The booze business is built on gimmicks and marketing. Bourbon included.

[whiskeyagonzo]

I'm guessing a whole barrel's worth of over-aged, ashy S-W.

I think that ash is sticking in their brain...clouding their judgment. :-)

[squire]

Gimmicks and marketing, true, still nobody would buy it if it didn't have alcohol.

[jaycamm]

Did anyone else see on the literature that the Rye is changing to 95% American?

[Kyjd75]

Did anyone else see on the literature that the Rye is changing to 95% American?

Yes, which is why I purchased another bottle of the 100% rye today. I have developed a real liking for the 100% rye at one-half the cost of WP.

[B.B. Babington]

picked up two today. definitely not EC, more like BT. have not pulled other brands to compare to try to figure this out, and probably won't anytime soon. I like it a lot. 1st dram was unimpressive but delving into it was very enjoyable. maybe too enjoyable, I'm still trying to put new floors in the house.

[B.B. Babington]

pulled an older GTS and it has many similarities. pulled an abraham bowman distilled 1998 and the bowman is a lot grassier. I'm thinking this is not going to end well.

[B.B. Babington]

okay, my excuse, I've not sipped much this past year so palate off. after spending time with the 21 it seems a lot like EC. at first try I didn't get the EC "florals" until aftertaste which is something I only observed with poor EC18 bottles. but today when palate is even more off, it has more of the florals compared to a distilled 91 EC18. Started tonight with a 2011 ER17 and the 21 is very different.

in a week or two, friends are coming over to sip, one of which has very discriminating taste, so will get their opinions.

any other opinions from those that have tried it?

[jfw]

I've only tried it one time so far, but I don't get any Heaven Hill from it. I'd go with your original opinion of BT.