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Whiskey Review: Jefferson’s Marian McLain
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Whiskey Review: Jefferson’s Marian McLain

10 /10
EDITOR
Type: American
ABV: 51% abv, SRP $300
Price: $300.00 This jumps out of the glass with the dessert and sugar notes

Whiskey Review is a American whisky. ABV: 51% abv, SRP $300. Our expert rating is 10/10.

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Tasting Notes

Nose

This jumps out of the glass with the dessert and sugar notes. I’m greeted with caramel and brown sugar, bananas foster, dark cherries and orange zest. There is a delicate note of oak to balance the sweetness of the nose. It is inviting and just fills a room.

Palate

The whiskey is full bodied, oily, and it clings to the teeth just holding. We start off where the nose left off, it’s fruity with pear, apples, suddenly toasted nuts like candied walnuts. It just evolves over the tongue and keeps evolving as it warms up in the mouth. This is one that each sip brings forward another note you missed the first time around. Lemon and oranges, aged oak and warn leather, cane sugar and rum. The palate is awash in complexity until the finish which brings the bourbon together and holds on your tongue. The nuttiness, fruitiness, robust earth notes all mellow slowly as it fades. We don’t get hit with any sour or tart notes. This is one you’ll drink a whole bottle of if you’re not careful.

Finish

Comments: Latest On The Whiskey Wash Blended bourbon with 21% 14-year-old, 40% 11-year-old, 14% wheated double-barrel, 17% rum cask finish and 8% 8-year-old. 51% abv, SRP $300

Expert Review

10/10

Jefferson’s Marian McLain is an exceptional find — one of those bottles that genuinely earns its reputation. Here is our full take.

Ash Carrington
Ash Carrington Reviews Editor
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