Starlight Distillery
Starlight Distillery
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Starlight Distillery Carl T. Huber's Mizunara Reserve Bourbon is a small batch, cask strength release made with grains grown on the distillery’s 700-acre farm. It is double pot distilled using a Vendome copper pot still and crafted with a sweet mash process. The whiskey blends eight barrels of Starlight’s 7-year-old 3- and 4-grain bourbon mashbills. Bottled at 116 proof, it is aged first in new American white oak barrels, then finished in Japanese Mizunara oak sourced from 200- to 500-year-old trees grown on Japan’s northernmost island.
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Strong, very inviting nose full of oak, Bavarian cream, apple bake, cinnamon, brown sugar.
Powerful and very oaky palate that delivers plenty of tannin and is quite astringent but tasty. Caramel, taffy, icing, black cherry.
Oak, tannin, a bit of minerality, butterscotch and cinnamon.
A very good but ultimately somewhat unbalanced bourbon; the mizunara dominates the distillate a bit more than I'd like.
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Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.
