Doc Swinson's Golden Hour
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It's been nearly a year since our last round of Doc Swinson's Exploratory Casks hit the website, but as soon as we messaged out their Golden Hour release to our text list a few weeks ago they flew. If you thought that was good, you'd better buckle up for today's release.Doc Swinson's Exploratory Cask line is all about pushing whiskey boundaries. Each release blends different cask finishes for bold, complex flavors that redefine what whiskey can be.
Their 98 proof Golden Hour release takes a 7-year high rye and low rye blend and finishes in port and rum casks. How do you take that release and make it better? Kick up the proof a bit and have Fred Minnick select his favorite one.
This 104 proof bottling of Golden Hour takes everything we love about the standard 98 proof offering and ramps it up. It begins with the same 7-year high rye and low rye blend, but then ages 3 additional years in rum casks from Trinidad & Tobago, St. Croix, Jamaica, and Venezuela.
If that wasn't enough, it's final finishing cask was an additional 4 months in an ex-Tawny Port 500L cask, used in a solera system in Portugal for minimum of 30 years.
This 10+ year total aged whiskey is about as smooth as a finished whiskey can get.
- The nose is dense and decadent - heavy demerara, vanilla sweetened oak, jelly donuts, and creme brulee.
- The palate is slow and coating, giving blanketing port jamminess with lingering sugary oak tannins. Lots of brown sugar, and lingering with sweet vanilla bean.
- The finish is clinging, weighted with raspberry jam, fresh yellow peach, maple syrup, black pepper, and well charred oak.
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