| #109 Austin Nichols Wild Turkey American Honey NAS Liqueur American |
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $2000 |  |
| 00-09: | Horrid | | 10-19: | Awful | | 20-29: | Unpleasant | | 30-39: | Poor | | 40-49: | Below Average | | 50-59: | Average | | 60-69: | Recommendable | | 70-79: | Very Good | | 80-89: | Excellent | | 90-99: | Fantastic |
Taste Score | 71 |
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 69 |
| ABV | 35% |
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| Tasting # 122: Liqueur Extendueur Week 3: Finally, the Finale! (04-MAY-2007) |
| Notes |  Sorry, but I'm abandoning this taste event. Aside from the Drambuie this has been at best passable (the creams) and at worst an awful drudgery that is wearing me down. To end this on a high note I steeled my resolve, settled my mojo and hunted down a final liqueur that I believed might save this sinking ship. As Austin Nichols has yet to have anything below recommendable, I took a chance on a halfer of their newest liqueur.  Wild Turkey American Honey is a real treat with wave after wave of sweet warmth. It easily mounted the American liqueuer taste mountain as alpha male and while it can't go back and fix all the wrongs of the Liqueur Extendueur, it at least takes us out on a high note. |
| Smell | Very sweet. Citrus, mostly oranges. Very potent. Lots of honey and vanilla plus some spice or heather, faint though. A little mineral-ish. Reminds me of candy and (sadly); a bit of Rock and Rye. Not much, just the high sweetness. |
| Taste | Oooh. Wow, really interesting. The first taste eases the fears raised in the smell. I've got to say first off that the Wild Turkey guys really worked on the balance, because this is such a dangerously drinkable glass. OK, back to work. There's a line of dark honey and a line of bourbon, both intermixed but easily distinguishable in the taste. It's really very nice. Clean. The honey is steady and dark and sweet with none of the sticky pancake syrup or corn syrup flavors and feel I've so learned to dread. Big citrus=> candied oranges and a bit of plain orange juice show up amidst the honey, this fades until it's all dark honey and heather and an earthy flavor that leads to a bourbon-revealing finish of vanilla and molasses and honeysuckle. Very smooth, nicely structured and easy to like. It lacks a bit in the complexity department versus the standard bourbon or blend since the honey is so potent as to quietly drown anything but the stronger bourbon flavors, but this is still vastly superior to all of the liqueurs I've had with the possible lone exception of Drambuie. Bravo, Wild Turkey! You've unleashed a winner, and a potent winner at that. I hesitate to score this in the 70s, maybe just over that line. It's still a touch sweeter than I'd like and there's only so much complexity amidst the powerful honey, but I truly enjoyed drinking this and have to give it due credit. Take care, while it may not taste it at 35% ABV this isn't a lightweight drink. |
| Tasting Score | 71 |
