George Dickel Bottled in Bond (11-Year-Old) - Best Dickel Ever?

Hey guys, welcome to Bourbon Bites Whiskey Reviews with a Gaming Twist

I'm Clifton, and today we're reviewing George Dickel Bottled and Bond 11 Year

So if you saw last year's 2019 release of this product, you know that I really wasn't a fan of

it. I just got way too much of that, what they call Flintstones Vitamin Funk, that is very

synonymous with George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey. It was just a little too overwhelming for me

there were some nice, you know, buttered popcorn kind of notes, and even that's kind of weird

So I've heard lots of things about the 2020 release and heard that it's a lot better. So I

thought I'd pick it up and give you guys a review. I know I'm a little late with this one, but I just

avoided it for so long because I was a little nervous. So let's go ahead and give it a try and

see how it is. And you can definitely tell the 11-year age just by how dark it is. I think that's

one of the most interesting things about this. This is a really old product. It's bottled in

Bond, and it's pretty affordable. So I picked this one up. I think it was like $45 to $50 in my area

Sometimes it's a bit more, sometimes it's a bit less. But still, for an 11-year-old bottled in

Bond whiskey, that's a pretty incredible deal in itself. Huh. So I don't remember exactly how the

nose was on the 2019 release. That bottle is long gone, but I will say this nose is actually really

really nice. It does still kind of have some of that like buttery, like brown sugar kind of nose

that I got on the last one, but it's really complemented by a lot of vanilla and definitely

some oak there with that age. On nose alone, I think this already beats the 2019 edition

but we got to see how it stands up with taste. Cheers, guys. So it's interesting. It does have a slightly different taste. Again, this isn't your typical

Kentucky bourbon. This is a Tennessee whiskey, which we know is pretty much just marketing speak

but they do filter this through charcoal So there is some of that going on But wow I really impressed by the way that tastes It tastes different of course than what I used to But I tell you as someone that very very sensitive to that Flintstone vitamin minerality whatever it is that in Dickel there little if none in this glass

It has like a really unique nuttiness. And I think the only like hint of that is like right on the finish

Now they do use a really high corn mash feel. They use 84% corn, 8% rye, and 8% malted barley

So there is a lot of corn in here. But to me, it goes almost more of a caramel corn versus, you know, like a buttered popcorn that I think is what I got on last year's release

Now, master distiller Nicole Austin did say that this expression is bigger and bolder in character

And I got to agree with her. There's a certain kind of spice that I'm trying to describe what it is

It's something that I've never got on like a Kentucky bourbon. Almost like a pumpkin pie spice, if that makes sense

It doesn't taste like pumpkin, but it kind of tastes like the spices that you would put in a pumpkin pie

Almost savory in that way. But honestly, I'm really, really digging this

I mean, for the price, again, $45 to $50, 11 years old, bottled and bond

Even if you hated last year's release or you've hated some other George Dickel products

I definitely recommend picking up a bottle of this, giving it another try. I would just say I'm very, very glad I did because I had pretty much written off Dickel

and I feel bad saying that, but definitely the best Dickel I've ever had

I'll just leave it at that. So thank you guys so much for watching. Just curious, have you tried this year's expression

Do you like it? How does it compare to last year's? Because I'm really curious. I have heard a lot of people say that they like this one so much more

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