I’ve to confess that after I realized of this new launch, I assumed, “How lengthy can this Wooden Ending Sequence go on?” Effectively, it took just one style of The Keepers Launch to persuade me that this extension of the collection is a superb thought.
BOTTLE DETAILS
STEVE’S NOTES
SHARE WITH: Any bourbon lover, any Maker’s Mark fan or fan of wheated bourbon or, particularly, bourbon followers preferring conventional (rye accented) bourbon.
WORTH THE PRICE: Completely. Hold studying to see why.
BOTTLE, BAR OR BUST: Bottle.
OVERALL: I’ve to confess that after I realized of this new launch, I assumed, “How lengthy can this Wooden Ending Sequence go on?” Effectively, it took just one style of The Keepers Launch to persuade me that this extension of the collection is a superb thought.
This can be my favourite of the lot; maybe for its simple, flavor-packed presentation. Prior releases–all of which I preferred–reached excessive and low to wring out complexity and character from totally different wooden staves utilized to raise these spirits. All have been scrumptious and distinctive, and particularly so with their laboratory-sounding names. However for me of meager palate, I generally needed to style them facet by facet to discern their variations.
This one, nevertheless, stands out by itself for its approachability and ease. Much less, it appears, is extra for The Keepers Launch, much more, the truth is.
On the nostril is deep, darkish oak, freshly dumped whiskey barrels and air-cooled rickhouses. Cured tobacco and darkish chocolate are superbly interwoven with Black Forest cake studded with spirit-soaked cherries.
Are you considering that it is a liquid dessert? It nearly is.
It is nonetheless a daring and wealthy bourbon that does not current “tender” in that flagship Maker’s Mark wheated method. It is obtained loads of spice, mouthfeel and construction strengthened with a properly measured dose of tannin. Probably it is going to make a improbable black Manhattan or a terrific boulevardier, however for now, it is a very good sipper for me, one to be savored slowly, neat and ideally with buddies over lengthy and winding conversations.
If you happen to hold with it by a 2 oz. pour, additional rewards emerge, equivalent to syrupy flat cola, fig jam and dates. In different phrases, darkish, darkish and extra darkness. If there is a cookie maker studying this, please mix these flavors to make a terrific grownup cookie. I will be your first buyer.
On this market, $75 is a more-than-fair worth for this delectable bottle.
BRAND NOTES
“The Keepers Launch was born from our shut collaboration with the Maker’s Mark warehouse crew, the guardians of our barrels,” stated Dr. Blake Layfield, grasp distiller, Maker’s Mark. “Their sensory expertise of Maker’s Mark is in contrast to anybody else’s — the fragrant oak at totally different occasions of the day, evolving tasting notes of our whisky because it ages over a number of seasons — which offered inspiration and helped us form the flavors of this launch.”
Maker’s Mark Wooden Ending Sequence is a group of one-of-a-kind expressions that use an revolutionary wooden stave-finishing approach to reinforce distinctive traits already current within the model’s iconic bourbon.
The Keepers Launch 2025 showcases wealthy, oak-forward aromas of seasoned wooden, brûléed sugar, and tobacco, resulting in an extended, enveloping end characterised by dried darkish fruit and a lingering roasted sweetness.
NOSE: Toasted sweetness, stone fruit and cocoa
PALATE: Brown sugar, maple and spice
FINISH: Creamy darkish chocolate.
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