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Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 20 Years Old

Price $100

Dark, spicy-sweet, deep vanilla aroma, and unlike many Bourbons, it tastes just like it smells. Medium to heavy body, with a mellow, lingering finish. Great sipper on a blustery night. — K.N. (9/1/2010)

96-100

points

Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve 23-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Price $200

The initial aromatic burst is chockfull of pork sausage and sweet spice scents; with aeration the aroma becomes a stately, mature, fully integrated whiskey bouquet, emitting scents of dark coffee, marzipan, praline, caramel corn and oaky vanillin. Palate entry and midpalate are melded, elegant, sap-like and sweet. Finishes warm, tangy, sweet and resiny. An American… — P.P. (11/15/2005)

96-100

points

Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve 15-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Price $45

Initial sniffings find aromas of sweet corn dripping with butter, dark toffee and hazelnuts; later inhalations pick up notes of chocolate cake frosting, cocoa beans and vanilla. Palate entry is spicy, prickly and raisiny; at midpalate the taste features lead pencil, slate, black pepper, sautéed butter and deep-seared oak. Finishes ash-like, chewy and oily. American… — P.P. (5/1/2006)

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