Barrell Bourbon Cigar Blend Bourbon Whiskey

Barrell Craft Spirits built its reputation on blending, and this is their first-ever cigar blend — a category invented back in 2016 when master blender Nancy Fraley created one for Jos. A. Magnus, designed specifically to complement a cigar rather than compete with it. Since there's no legal definition of what a cigar blend is, every brand interprets it differently, and Barrell's take is characteristically ambitious: straight bourbons aged 7.5 to 18 years, distilled in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana, then finished in four separate cask types — Madeira, Armagnac, rum, and Hungarian oak — before blending and bottling in Kentucky at cask strength, 111.2 proof (55.6% ABV). On paper that's too many variables, but reviewers overwhelmingly agree it lands. Breaking Bourbon noted the Madeira and rum casks bring sweeter notes while the Armagnac and Hungarian oak add spice and dryness. Expect sourdough, toffee, pipe tobacco, and cedar on the nose, moving into stewed red fruit, berry jam, cherry, leather, and dried oak, finishing long with cinnamon, clove, black pepper, and dark tobacco. One reviewer called it the best release Barrell has ever put out, and Forbes praised it as complex whiskey done right.

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