| #385 Rebel Yell NAS Straight Bourbon 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 | $2500 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| 31 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 40% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 417: I guess I can't avoid Johnnie Reb any longer. (01-FEB-2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | I have carefully avoided Rebel Yell for my entire whisky drinking life. It has a reputation, certainly, and its cost point and shelf address don't add anything to it. I knew it would strain any attempt at me being objective. I think I'm as ready as I'll ever be, though. I've found surprising joy in everything from  the dirty bird to Beam Green and been hugely disappointed by whiskies as old as I am. It doesn't guarantee I'll be perfectly open to whatever this bottle brings, but it's the best chance I think RY will get. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | Bottle is actually fairly nice. Given the 100 year history of this bourbon, the slightly cliche elements might actually have been invented here. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | Pretty typical stuff. Corn syrup and oak firewood. There's also a nice candied pecan scent and some soft fruity notes. The corn raises a few flags, but nothing that can't be overcome. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | And that my friends, is awful. The front is mild corn, wheat and just a bit of wood that drives you off the cliff into a lake of fire. It's raw charcoal and pepper and bitter metallic flavors that made me wince. Water does nothing. The only thing that made it better was dumping the glass, followed shortly by the bottle. Low 30s. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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