Bookers Bourbon 2021-01 Donohoes Batch

Bookers Batch 2021-01 Donohoe’s Batch Bourbon

Booker’s 2021-01 nips the nose with a strong but manageable ethanol bite. Once acclimated, fruit tree blossoms and roasted sweet corn blend with red berry nectar, Rainier cherries, plums, and gourmet raisins. With continued nosing, soft allspice and a faint nutmeg mix with white pepper. Then come buttery pie crust, graham crackers, vanilla custard, and sweets of maple sugar candy, buttery caramel, and peanuts bathing in light maple syrup.

Continued sipping brings on roasted sweet corn and an herbalness that plays well with the flavors of red berries, Rainier cherries, and plum nectar blended in a spice mixture of light cinnamon, ginger, and black pepper. Then come sweets of brown sugared pie crust, faint but rich vanilla, buttery brown sugar caramel, and peanut-filled toffee.

As on the nose the wood flavors of fresh oak sawdust, toasted wood and light barrel char are there, but don’t dominate. And when all the flavors begin to fade, a nice leatheriness comes through.