Amador Double Barrel Chardonnay Finish Whiskey

Amador is the whiskey of a Napa wine family — Trinchero Family Estates, the house behind Sutter Home — and its Double Barrel line is built on a simple idea: Kentucky bourbon, finished in the family's own California wine barrels. The Chardonnay edition takes Kentucky straight bourbon aged three to ten years, made from a high-corn, wheat-and-rye recipe sourced from Bardstown, and rests it in French oak barrels that previously held Trinchero Napa Chardonnay, the same white-wine casks that gave the family's original Ten Barrels release its signature. Bottled at 86.8 proof. Where a red-wine finish adds dark fruit and tannin, Chardonnay oak does something subtler: a buttery, honeyed roundness, a whisper of green apple and white peach, and a creamy texture that softens the bourbon without sweetening it. The original Double Barrel took Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and 93 points from Tastings.com. Expect caramel, vanilla, and honey on the nose with a faint orchard-fruit brightness and toasted oak, opening into a smooth, rounded palate of butterscotch, baked apple, light baking spice, and a buttery finish that lingers gently. Honest note: this is the mellowest of the Amador finishes — drinkers who want a bold wine-cask statement should reach for the Cabernet or Port. For a bourbon that drinks almost like a dessert wine's cousin — neat, or in a Gold Rush with honey and lemon — it's a genuinely distinctive pour from wine country.

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