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Barrell Craft Spirits
56.05%
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Barrell Bourbon New Year 2025 is bottled at 56.05% ABV and priced at $84.99 for a 750ml bottle. It features a derived mashbill of 75% corn, 20% rye, 4% malted barley and 1% wheat. The blend includes bourbons aged 5 to 15 years sourced from Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Wyoming, New York, Texas, Ohio and Maryland.
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2025's release is sweet on the nose with loads of custard, plus nougat, vanilla bean, toffee, brown butter, some butter scotch and sweet oak.
Rich on the palate with a prickle of heat. Toffee once more, plus graham cracker, honey, brown sugar and a bunch of oak and pepper. Lovely combo of sweet and spicy. Whew, there’s some heat, though.
Long finish, with tons of toffee and buttercream. Pepper and ethanol join the punch again, blended with sweet oak, maple and honey.
Overall, I like this release, but it’s not the best New Year we’ve seen, primarily thanks to that pop of ethanol striking here or there out of place. Delicious otherwise — if you like your pours a bit punchy, you’ll like this more than I.
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Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.
