The Whiskey Reviewer uses a letter-based rating system, instead of the numerical 100-grade rating system. I’ve seen a few particularly nasty merchants listing it for as high as $330 a bottle. This item should cost you $55, but the market value (what it costs to buy it from a genuine retailer on demand we never acknowledge black market pricing here) is an average of $230. The finish is medium to long in length, dry, with hints of leather, cinnamon spice, and oak. Tasted neat, more potent hints of caramel, vanilla, honey, oak, and cinnamon spice arise.
On the nose are hints of caramel, maple, vanilla, brown sugar, oak, honey, leather and toffee. Lee is incredibly warm and welcoming, that all whiskey lovers may enjoy. The bourbon is very smooth with the perfect balance of sweetness and spice. Bottled at 45% ABV, it doesn’t taste like it at all, more like 35%. Lee is a single barrel sour mash Kentucky Straight Bourbon. The finish is solid with warm hints of leather, oak and fresh earth.Įlmer T. The mouth feel is delightfully warming, not over powering in the least bit, delicate and smooth with a bouquet of soft candy fruit sweetness, vanilla, fresh apricot and an inviting earthiness. On my first sip, the flavor has an initial crispness of marzipan and vanilla with a full-bodied feel.
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The nose is full of vanilla with hints of oak and leather and mild alcohol. It’s a beautiful dark copper colored liquid in my glass with respectable legs clinging to the sides of my glass. Its taste is more distinctive, it has a great pedigree (being a single barrel, like its label-mate Blanton’s), and even though there are bigger and more famous boys on the block, Elmer has the skills and talent to take them in a one-on-one match-up. Lee is as good as better known (and sometimes more expensive) small batch, premium bourbons. In my opinion, and this is where the boxing terminology comes in – Elmer T. This dryness is particularly evident in the finish, which is reminiscent of the finish of Blanton’s (Elmer T. In your mouth it is dry and crisp with hints of spiciness, coming off almost more like a wine than bourbon with a distinct light licorice and cinnamon taste. This stuff has the classic, copper-colored bourbon look, with an aroma of brown sugar, dried fruits, apricot and molasses. The whiskey is bottled at 45% alcohol (90 proof). It is square with rounded corners and slightly indented sides.
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Lee comes in a bottle that looks like it came out of an episode of “Deadwood” or the movie “Tombstone”. Lee is still an ambassador for Buffalo Trace and has been the recipient of Malt Advocate magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as inducted into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame.Įlmer T. It was he who introduced the single barrel bourbon concept with the release of Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon. Stagg Distillery (what we currently know as Buffalo Trace) from 1969 to 1985. Lee the man was the plant manager for George T. Lee, there is the bourbon and the man.Įlmer T. Stagg Distillery, etc.) and has been owned by the Sazerac Company since 1992.Īs for Elmer T. It has gone through several iterations and name changes (such as O.F.C. Its first formal distillery was constructed by Harrison Blanton in 1812. Lee, one of the excellent but lesser known bourbons from Buffalo Trace, I can’t help but think of a boxing term “punching above one’s weight” and I mean that in the best possible way.īriefly, Buffalo Trace is the Kentucky distillery of bourbons such as Blanton’s, Eagle Rare, Buffalo Trace and my beloved Pappy Van Winkle. As I sit here writing up this review of Elmer T.
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