We welcomed Circle City Whiskey Company to the site a few months ago and they were met with a super quick sellout. We are back today with some of the best toasted and double oaked bourbons I've had this year, and I'm sure the base of 78/10/12 Kentucky bourbon sure helps.
Circle City is an independent bottler of American whiskeys. Deriving from an Indianapolis-based barrel selection group that has immense pride for their Circle City roots, they've humbly served that community by scouring coast-to-coast for the best barrels they could find and bottling them with transparency and integrity. They've certainly benefited from close proximity to Kentucky and excellent Indiana-based distilleries, and have captured the attention of stores and groups throughout the country. They've answered by offering select releases to the rest of the country.
Today we have Batch 1 of their Toasted American Oak and Double Oaked, and a wonderful single barrel of their Toasted French Oak, but I don't see any of them lasting very long.
- Softly sweet with gentle spiced caramel, baked apple pie, warming vanilla and subtle oak.
- The palate is warming and spiced, layers of baking spices and charred oak. Silky yet toasted vanilla come through before cooked caramel. Toasted sugar browning pocket with minimal fruitiness.
- The finish continues the same as the nose and palate - long lingering with toasted caramel, creamy nuttiness, growing spices, and oak.
- Rich, thick, warming spices covered in toasted vanilla.
- The palate is custardy and deep, giving touches of dried fruit and red fruits with an intriguing potpourri of clove, allspice, and pepper spices.
- The finish is long and deeply spiced with well-charred oak, toasted lemon peel, and heavy caramel sauce.
- Viscous, heavy vanilla creaminess on the nose with long lingering caramel sauce.
- The palate is like sleeping on a marshmallow in the middle of a rick house. Thick, creamy vanilla sweetness with deeply charred oak in the best way possible.
- The finish gives pleasant nods to red fruits and apple concentrate before coming back to these heavy vanilla, caramel, and oak notes. Just a beautiful, rich, crushable double oaked.
