Bernheim reviews

Nose: very bourbon-like but the sweetness is creamier. Moist vanilla cake. With lemon buttercream icing! Decadent sweetness atop rich, toasted oak. Marvellous aroma. Taste: full-bodied, with big…

I just found a new friend. Nose: Bread, gingerbread, oak, cereal, cinnamon, vanillaTaste: Oak, brown sugar, sherbet, ripe tropical fruit Finish: Peppers, oakI checked back on the bottle in month four and…

I opened this bottle about a year ago. I didn't like it then. It was way to sweet and the wheat cream flavor was covering everything being more like oatmeal. So I left it unattended for 10 months, just…

Oops, forgot to review that one. I've had it for quite a while now.Drunk neat from a bottle that is down to a third of its volume and has first been opened well over a year ago.Nose: It's remarkably…

I started drinking whisky only because of my love for bourbons. Big bold personalities unashamed of smothering you with flavors whereas most Scottish single malts chose to remain restrained and courteous…

When I give tastings I am often amazed at how many people love the flavour profile of a wheated whiskey...amazed because there are so few wheat-dominant whiskeys on the market. Those wheat-dominant…

As far as I know this is the only wheat whisky made in America. Distinct from a wheated bourbon.Nose: Sweet spices of cinnamon, cooked vanilla, some toasted notes of oak, a slight light custard creami…

Got me a sample of another extreme. This one is extreme, because it is a 100% Wheater. It is extreme, but in a gentle way.The nose reminds me of the Maker's Mark Red Seal, something which isn't surpri…

Wheat Whiskies are a bit of an outlier in the Bourbon world.In order to be classified as a Wheat Whiskey, you must have at least 51% Wheat in the mashbill. (the grains that make up your recipe) In this…

“Wheat” whiskey is a rather old kind of spirit, by New World standards anyway, but it has laid dormant for some time. Continuing along its playful streak, Heaven Hill reintroduced the category with…