![]() Along that journey, you’ll find deeper notes of Christmas nutcakes, oatmeal raisin cookies, and soft senses of fall leaves in fallow orchards on a rainy day with a hint of smoldering oak. The pour rewards you for taking it slow, re-nosing, adding water, and letting bloom in the glass. This is a quintessential Kentucky sipping whiskey. Palate: The palate is super creamy with a crème brûlée feel that leads to soft winter spices, dry cedar, and orange chocolates with a hint of pear-brandy-soaked marzipan in the background.įinish: The end has a creamed honey vibe next to brandy-soaked figs and rum-soaked prunes with fresh chewing tobacco and salted dark chocolate leading back to dark chocolate and old cellar floors with a touch of smoldering orchard bark. Okay, that’s enough preamble, let’s get into what’s in these bottles. Moreover, these are high-end limited releases, which means that you can find these but you’re going to have to pay a larger price for them (but rarely over MSRP). Each year the batches vary, depending on how the barrels were doing that year. These two bottles are released once a year in the fall. ![]() Both are revered legends in the whiskey community. The “secret” here is that these aren’t labeled as “Michter’s” expressions but they carry the same attention to detail in every moment of the process, thanks to Master Distiller Dan McKee and Master of Maturation Andrea Wilson. The former is a classic bourbon that’s aged in special Chinquapin oak barrels while the latter is a sour mash whiskey (blend of bourbon and rye) that highlights one of Michter’s greatest strengths - good sour mash whiskey that doesn’t need to be bourbon or rye on the label. Two bottles that are considered by insiders and whiskey fans alike as “secret Michter’s” fall right in the middle of the brand’s spectrum - Bomberger’s Declaration and Shenk’s Homestead. As such, they cover all the bases in the whiskey world with high-quality products at each of those levels that never disappoint. The secret that they’ve wisely unlocked is that you can find their core line on store shelves across the country (and the world actually) for a fair price while their elite and limited edition bottles are just barely within reach (with some just out of reach enough to be enigmatic). Michter’s remains one of the best premium whiskey brands out there.
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