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TASTING: Bespoken Spirits Rye

Bespoken Rye

Bespoken Spirits

Rye

Bespoken Spirits


Proof: 100
ABV: 50%
Style: Rye
State: Indiana
Price: $$$


Peggy Noe Stevens

Nose
Deep brown sugar and Bing cherries. A bready cereal tone and granola mix. Some cassis layers of raisin. Touches of licorice and rich maple.

Palate
Oak rises on the first sip and butter pecan accompanies. The anise flavors continue but are captured once again by the sugary flavors. 

Finish
A clever sweetness for the age, yet the finish is a bit cloying and needs to relax.

Comments
This youngster would be quite stealthy in a Sazerac.

Score

7.1


Susan Reigler

Nose
Very grassy, like freshly cut rye. Spices tantalize. A little fruit – ripe apple, perhaps – but the herbal notes rule.

Palate
Bitter, almost sour. Lots of grass and a lot of wood. Tastes very, very young, though the color is a deep copper, almost red. 

Finish
Warm, with oak and some spice staying at the back of the throat, with a little fruit, too.  

Comments
Certainly displays a good deal of rye character, but it drinks very, very young. What would it be after some more time aging? 

Score

6.8


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