Miss Daisy Rates the pours

[sailor22]

The charming Miss Daisy gives her thumbs up rating to six of the pours from last weekends Tallahassee Whiskey Society get together in the barn. No formal tasting notes were recorded - sorry.

[Daisy Bukes]

Thanks for organizing the barn tasting, Sailor22! I do have photos of everything I tasted plus limited notes that predictably devolved over the course of the tasting. I'll just say that Willett 9 has a "turpentine nose," the Vintage Rye 23 was a "parabola," and the Eagle Rare 10 "burns smooth the whole ride" -- whatever those mean!

[Harry in WashDC]

Oooooh. Turpentine. Yum. A flavor/aroma I can relate to.

[sailor22]

What's interesting about Miss Daisy's notes is that I don't recall a Willett 9 in the line up.

[MyOldKyDram]

Ha, more like Daisy Oops!

[393foureyedfox]

Thanks for organizing the barn tasting, Sailor22! I do have photos of everything I tasted plus limited notes that predictably devolved over the course of the tasting. I'll just say that Willett 9 has a "turpentine nose," the Vintage Rye 23 was a "parabola," and the Eagle Rare 10 "burns smooth the whole ride" -- whatever those mean!

Ive never heard the word "parabola" used in tasting notes!

[petrel800]

Parabola is an interesting one . . . Does that mean the nose was fantastic and it went down from there as you initially sipped it only to have it hit the low point half way through the process with the finish going off to an infinity of greatness?

I love math . . .

[393foureyedfox]

Parabola is an interesting one . . . Does that mean the nose was fantastic and it went down from there as you initially sipped it only to have it hit the low point half way through the process with the finish going off to an infinity of greatness?

I love math . . .

thats all I can suspect.

[Daisy Bukes]

What's interesting about Miss Daisy's notes is that I don't recall a Willett 9 in the line up.

There was a Willett 7, 9, and 10. I started the afternoon with a side by side comparison of the 7 and 9.

[Flyfish]

What's interesting about Miss Daisy's notes is that I don't recall a Willett 9 in the line up.

Isn't that it in the back row? What else don't you recall? (You wouldn't be the first SBer to get way beyond his notes.)

[393foureyedfox]

thats a 10 in the background. Id already zoomed in on it to see for myself.

[theglobalguy]

What's in the mystery bottle? Seems to say "Bourbon Fall Rebarrel"?

[Daisy Bukes]

Isn't that it in the back row? What else don't you recall? (You wouldn't be the first SBer to get way beyond his notes.)

The 10 is in the back row. We voted on which bottles were the best of the best for that evening, and these are those. Here is a photo of the entire selection, as well as proof of the existence of the Willett 9.

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[smknjoe]

How did you like the Old Grand Dad (all of them) and what I think is a wheater, the Jefferson's Presidential Select (which year?)

[Daisy Bukes]

How did you like the Old Grand Dad (all of them) and what I think is a wheater, the Jefferson's Presidential Select (which year?)

Sailor22 vatted the two Old Granddads (1978 86 proof and 1984 100 proof). I don't have notes for that one, but remember liking the vatting more then the two by themselves.

I also don't have notes for the Jefferson's Presidential Select Rye 21 (pictured) but not pictured was the last sips of a Jefferson's Presidential Select Single Barrel (D-56) 18, the notes for which state: "Stitzel Weller" and my transcriptions of two other TWS tasters' words: "ethereal floatiness finish floating above tongue" and "walking into a cupcake shop."

Edited January 21, 2014 by Daisy Bukes

[Flyfish]

thats a 10 in the background. Id already zoomed in on it to see for myself.

Boy, your zoom gets a different result from mine--which clearly says 9YO from barrel 1422, 129.4 proof.

[393foureyedfox]

Boy, your zoom gets a different result from mine--which clearly says 9YO from barrel 1422, 129.4 proof.

I was referring to the pic in the first post. It says 10 years, 127.2 proof, barrel #824. you're looking at post #13's pic.

[SMOWK]

That 9yr #1422 is a special whiskey.

[393foureyedfox]

That 9yr #1422 is a special whiskey.

I bet it is. Given the lineup Id go for that one first.

[sailor22]

What's in the mystery bottle? Seems to say "Bourbon Fall Rebarrel"?

That's a rebarrel vatting by Doug Phillips - Majic Crazy Good

The line up in the first photo is;

Blanton's bottled Fall 1990 - Wild Turkey Russles Reserve 101 - Eagle Rare 101 - Willett 10yr barrel 824 - Rebarreled Bourbon Vatting by Doug Phillips, WT Kentucky Spirit Barrel #1 Rickhouse A on Rick 2 bottled 12-5-03.

The 800 series of barrels from Willett has produced some of my favorites and that's what the 10 is.