Sweetens Cove Kennessee Bourbon Whiskey

Kennessee is the everyday bottle from Sweetens Cove Spirits, the whiskey brand named for a golf course in Tennessee where every player was handed a complimentary shot of whiskey on the first tee. The course's owners, a group including Peyton Manning, Andy Roddick and Jim Nantz, turned that tradition into a $200 13-year Tennessee bourbon in 2020 and hired Marianne Eaves, the former Brown-Forman blender and Castle & Key master distiller behind Old Forester 1870, to blend it. Kennessee, launched in 2022 at a $60 suggested price, is her answer to the question of what the brand looks like at a normal price: a blend of Kentucky and Tennessee bourbons, the two rival states in one bottle, hence the name, with no age statement, finished in stainless steel tanks on toasted sugar-maple spirals rather than in a second barrel, and bottled at 110.7 proof (55.35% ABV). Paste's Jim Vorel scored it 8.4 and found heavy caramel and brown sugar with clove and nutmeg on the nose, then a sweet, silky palate of brown sugar, toffee, vanilla bean and bright orange citrus with flashes of raspberry, a Biscoff-like brown-butter biscuit note and a little mint, closing with moderate heat.

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