Cleveland Underground
7.8

Cleveland Underground

Black Cherry Wood

ABV 47%

Expecting originality from the original spices on the nose, it was well balanced and delivered on its promise. Enjoyable.

Charles Montanaro

Specification

Cleveland Underground

Brand

Black Cherry Wood

Expression

Bourbon

Type

No age statement

Age (Years)

2015

Year of Bottling

47%

ABV

USA

Region/Country

Standard (Distillery or blended)

Bottling Type

Tasting Notes

Charles Montanaro

Taster

Nose: One word – Christmas. Very delicate, a tad too light. Lots of allspice, frankincense, cloves, burnt apple. It’s surprisingly difficult to find the subtle sweetness among these monster houses of spice.

Palate: The return of the spice. A heavy oak and butterscotch blast followed by a powerful mouth coating marzipan, clove and ground pepper.

Finish: Short, oozing of brown sugar and caramel.

Comment: Expecting originality from the original spices on the nose, it was well balanced and delivered on its promise. Enjoyable.

Score: 7.7

Chris Goodrum

Taster

Nose: Crisp corn and dusty spice with some youthful herbal but \nbitter rye and oak. With time a touch of burnt toffee and orange conserve emerges.

Palate: Opens with the burnt toffee and oily corn. Straightforward but relatively deep. However the burnt toffee is a \nlittle intrusive and over time becomes the dominating flavour.

Finish: Long with the now astringent, herbal rye battling the burnt toffee and corn for supremacy.

Comment: It appears to be a simple, inexpensive Bourbon.

Score: 7.8

7.8
Overall Score

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