Mile High Spirits
Mile High Spirits
52.8%
5 Years
This single-barrel bourbon comes from the Denver, Colorado-based Mile High Spirits. It was aged for four years in a new American white oak barrel and then finished for a year in a 225-liter French oak barrel that previously contained an Australian Tawney port. Port needs to be made in Portugal, so "Australian Port" is an oxymoron; our best guess is the cask previously contained an Australian Tawny port-style fortified wine.
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Rich on the nose, with berries, toffee, barrel char, pepper and tobacco. Hint of youth but pleasant and rich.
Pleasant on the palate. Nice mouthfeel with lots of port showing through alongside oak, red berries and blackberry. Youthful funk persists here but not egregiously, nice complexity beside it.
Long finish, mineral-driven with cherry, big port notes, some barrel char and a bit of youthful funk.
I like this release, and with a couple more years, it should be a bruiser. Right now, the port is doing a great job masking the youthful funk and oak, but it’s not quite there.
75
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