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Puerto Rico/NYC
No. 7 on my list, and the one I have referred to as "perfect bourbon."
Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 year old, Lot "B"
Because of the extension of the bourbon/rye season, I have been able to finish taste testing certain bourbons, and confirming the consistency, or lack thereof, of some old favorites as new bottles have been opened and moderately to extensively tasted.
This bourbon is still "perfect" in my book and well worthy of its placement in the royal range of my Top 25 at No. 7. The top seven on my list will indeed be very hard to ever move out of place. It was tough enough to place Pure Kentucky at No. 12 earlier this week, as I find that between places 8 and 14 there is about as much of a solidity as places No. 1 through 7, but with somewhat less rigidity. From place Nos. 15 to about 21, the field is not quite wide open but broadens considerably as far as what might get placed there at any point in the tasting of bourbons that are new to me.
Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 year old. I don't think it can be moved from No. 7, unless it were somehow to go up. It's that good, and it won't cost you the price of an F-18A fighter jet.
Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 year old, Lot "B"
Because of the extension of the bourbon/rye season, I have been able to finish taste testing certain bourbons, and confirming the consistency, or lack thereof, of some old favorites as new bottles have been opened and moderately to extensively tasted.
This bourbon is still "perfect" in my book and well worthy of its placement in the royal range of my Top 25 at No. 7. The top seven on my list will indeed be very hard to ever move out of place. It was tough enough to place Pure Kentucky at No. 12 earlier this week, as I find that between places 8 and 14 there is about as much of a solidity as places No. 1 through 7, but with somewhat less rigidity. From place Nos. 15 to about 21, the field is not quite wide open but broadens considerably as far as what might get placed there at any point in the tasting of bourbons that are new to me.
Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 year old. I don't think it can be moved from No. 7, unless it were somehow to go up. It's that good, and it won't cost you the price of an F-18A fighter jet.