Complex and addictive. Scents of cinnamon, hazelnuts, and dried fruit precede big flavors: cinnamon spice, raisinated and plummy, like Madeira or Sherry. Long finish, with a bit of a bite.
Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Sour Mash Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750ml
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Product Description
Awarded World's Best Single Barrel Bourbon 2026 by World Whiskies Awards America Elmer T. Lee with fifty years experience. Has produced some of the finest bourbons ever bottled. This is his own private selection.
Product Specs
| Alcohol by Volume | 45.0% |
| Country of Origin | United States |
| Region | Kentucky |
| UPC | 080244007737 |
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Awards & Scores
Critic reviews and blind-tasting competition results for this bottle.
What critics and judges wrote
Delicately complex teasing aromas, with a potpourri of spices, floral notes, and complex fruit (oranges, plum, pineapple, coconut). … Impeccably balanced flavors and subtly complex, with notes of exotic fruit, subtle spices, almonds and soft honey tones.
It's warm with an inviting baked apple crisp with vanilla ice cream aroma. The palate finds more oats, apples, cinnamon, caramel and oak. The finish is long and spicy with the cinnamon prevailing note.
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
Show 2 more notes, 2026
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
Delicate fruity nose, with hints of nuts and sweet confection. Rounded and full with appealing leather notes, balanced oak fruitiness and mouthfeel. Hint of caramel on the deeply satisfying finish.
Show 3 more notes, 2019 to 2022
Lifted oak notes give flavour with subtle peppery notes and clean tropical fruits on the palate.
An expressive and fruity nose with hints of peach and cedar. The palate is balanced with warming Christmas spices and marzipan flavours, supported by some subtle herbal undertones.
A sweet nose with a rich intense palate with dried fruits and spices. Big spices and rosins with a long finish. Custard, caramelised apples, spices and cloves.
Competition medals
18 medals from 4 competitions, 2018 to 2026.
Tasting Notes
Flavor profile
How strongly each flavor family shows up across 19 notes from 6 publications, weighted by source.
- Herbal & greenfloral notes, a little minty, floral character, Sappy, pine resinLight
- Fruitycomplex fruit (oranges, plum, pineapple, coconut), exotic fruitClear
- Sweetsoft honey tones, vanilla ice cream, caramel, vanilla, light molassesLight
- Oak & maltalmonds, hazelnuts, oats, oak, slight malty characterClear
- SmokeSome smokeA hint
- Spicea potpourri of spices, subtle spices, scents of cinnamon, big flavors: cinnamon spice, the spice flows freelyClear
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