Pappy Van Winkle 23 year old Family Reserve

Broodingly thick and syrupy in texture and quite dry-especially on the finish. Twenty-three years is a long time for bourbon to spend in oak and this one shows its age. The flavors and complexity of its younger two siblings is evident until mid-palate but then dwindles slightly as the whisky progresses replaced by dry spicy leathery sooty-charcoal tobacco notes.