Chicken Cock Chanticleer Cognac Finished Bourbon Whiskey

Chanticleer is Chicken Cock's Kentucky straight bourbon finished in Cognac casks — and The Whiskey Wash says you can smell it in the glass before it reaches your nose. Chicken Cock is the Famous Old Brand from Paris, Kentucky, distilling since 1856 and poured at the Cotton Club through Prohibition; spirits entrepreneur Matti Anttila rediscovered it in 2011 and Grain & Barrel Spirits relaunched it in 2014, with the whiskey distilled at Bardstown Bourbon Company. Chanticleer — the rooster of Chaucer and the fables — takes the house's high-rye Kentucky straight bourbon and finishes it in French oak casks that previously held Cognac, bottled at 90 proof in the honeycomb-textured replica of the Prohibition-era bottle. The Whiskey Wash: a mahogany-copper pour with warm, smooth oak like a rickhouse on a summer day, then maple, pine, Cognac, red-wine grape, and orange chocolate with leather and honey behind, a first sip that almost overwhelms, then Cognac sweetness — the dark, complex sugar of fine wine — molding to the tongue. Expect the base bourbon's caramel, corn, and rye spice under a layer of dried fig, raisin, and brandied fruit, with a long, sweet, oaky finish. Honest note: it's a finished bourbon at a premium price for a young base — the Cognac does the heavy lifting, and it does it well. For a Vieux Carré, a brandy-drinker's Old Fashioned, or neat after dinner. The rooster, in Cognac wood.

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