![]() Mouth: Caramel, mint, and after a little while a little spice builds up.įinish: Short with a little lingering spice. Nose: Green Apple Jolly Rancher candy, caramel. Purchase Info: $13.49 for a 1-liter bottle at MGM Wine and Spirits, Burnsville, MN.ĭetails: Aged at least 36 months. It even has a few flavored spinoffs in the forms of Apple, Brown Sugar, and Peach whiskey flavored liqueurs. Benchmark Old Number 8 Bourbon + Backwards American Whiskey by Whiskey Vault January 9, 2022, 1:50 am 999 Views 41 Comments Today we taste and review Benchmark Bourbon Old Number 8 and Backwards Distilling Company American Whiskey. These days, though it is still owned by Sazerac, it lives on the bottom shelf. During the 1970s, the ads for the brand told consumers to "Measure Your Bourbon Against It." By the late 1980s, the brand was up for sale and was purchased by Sazerac who used it and Eagle Rare (also purchased from Seagram's) to get into the bourbon business. The brand was originally launched by Seagram's in the late 1960s. 2010 Gold International Wine & Spirits Competition. 2010 Silver Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. 2010 Gold San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Each tree was then cut into two parts - top and bottom - yielding 192 unique tree sections. It all started with 96 individually selected American oak trees that differed according to the number of growth rings per inch and growing location. 2010 Very Good / Recommended (85-89 pts) Ultimate Spirits Challenge. The Single Oak Project is its most inventive and comprehensive experiment yet. A robust and sturdy palate with some fine leather notes mingling with dry tobacco.11. The nose bears caramel notes with a delicate stone-fruit backdrop. Since I didn't talk about it last time around, let's go over a little history of the brand. 2012 Silver The Washington Cup Spirits Competition. The nose bears caramel notes with a delicate stone-fruit backdrop. It may only be three years old, but there is nothing to keep this from being a nice card playing bourbon. Tasting Notes: Caramel, Cherry, Leather, Oak, Stone Fruit, Tobacco. According to the distillery, Benchmark Old No.8 Brand Kentucky Straight Bourbon is aged for at least 36 months in new, charred oak barrels. Since I was out this weekend looking around at "affordable" options for bourbon, I thought it might be time to take another look at it. See if the intervening time has been kind to it. Back in 2015, I said the following: It wasn't a formal review as it was part of 2015's Bottom Shelf Brackets, but for the longest time, it was all I offered. ![]() It has been 1,266 days since I last posted tasting notes for Benchmark Bourbon.
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