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Balcones

True Blue

ABV 50%
REVIEWED Issue 154

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Specifications

Brand: Balcones
Expression: True Blue
Type: USA Whisky / Corn
Age: No Age Statement
ABV: 50%
Country/Region: USA / Texas
Bottling type: Standard (Distillery or blended)

Awards

Editor's Choice
Issue 154

Tasting notes

Taster Rob Allanson

Nose: Forget sherry bombs, this is a butter and caramel explosion. Huge and encompassing spices, hints of gentle smoke, like warming cedar wood. Cinnamon and chocolate.
Palate: Huge, huge sweetness then all those spices come through. Shades of banana bread and butter. Honey and buttered fresh cornbread straight out of the oven.
Finish: Long and sweet, despite its ABV very soft and just keeps going.
Comment: Some whiskey this, ticks all the boxes. Just a riot of sweetness that doesn’t seem to want to end.

9.0

Taster Sam Coyne

Nose: Sweet popcorn. Caramel, cereals. So far nothing too crazy. All of a sudden it ducks and dives between sweet, with some cranberries and savoury through a satay peanut aroma.
Palate: Mostly sweetness to begin. Caramel, the vanilla pod and cinnamon too. Red berries, sandwich ham and rocket salad.
Finish: Faint reminder of the cranberries but mostly sweet caramel.
Comment: Nostalgic and a real treat- worthy of smuggling past the cinema usher instead of the popcorn, but please don't commit crimes on our part.

8.5

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