![]() A beautiful blend of subtle sweetness and slightly drying finish, it’s a wonderfully balanced dram that is a lot of things all at once–lightly honeyed and fruity, but also spicy and slightly smoky. On the palate, smoked clove duets with subtle strawberry fruitiness, along with French roast coffee, vanilla frosting and herbal complexity. The result is a wonderfully heady and complex WT whiskey blend, with a nose combining assertive tones of dried herbs, earthy rye spice, subtle smoke and vanilla, along with nutty chocolate, black pepper and leather. All in all, it’s a blend of 13-year-old bourbon with 8- and 9-year-old rye, given a second maturation in rye casks and then bottled at 52.5% ABV (105 proof). This is a very interesting “bourye,” featuring some of the oldest rye that Wild Turkey–a brand that doesn’t put a lot of stock into big age statements, especially for rye–has ever released. Forgiven has subsequently been produced only a few times by WT, but Unforgotten is the brand’s tribute to its notoriety, elevated into a more mature and prestigious release. The 2022 entry in Wild Turkey’s annual Master’s Keep series was one of the year’s most highly anticipated whiskeys among those geeks who have always loved the brand’s rarely seen brand Forgiven–a legendary creation that came about when the distiller mistakenly combined mature bourbon and younger rye in the 2000s, and then decided to sell the resulting happy accident. ![]() ![]() Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Unforgotten MSRP: $200 This is the Paste series that gives us an excuse to do exactly that, so let’s get to tasting.ġ. It’s only natural, given that this scene is hyper focused on newness and novelty, but it’s also a shame that we don’t revisit some of those other bottles in our liquor cabinet more often. Regularly scheduled limited release whiskeys have come and gone, the obsession with Buffalo Trace products has continued unabated, and in general things have felt more familiar for whiskey geeks in 2023 than they did in the two years prior.Īnd when things feel familiar, and spirits writers are operating as they tend to operate with a constant influx of new products to taste, one thing that always seems to get forgotten are revisits to previously released bottles. With the worst facets of the pandemic now hopefully in the rearview mirror, things have gotten at least nominally “back to business” in the spirits world. ![]() You can see all previous entries in the series here. Whiskeys Revisited is a Paste series that gives us a welcome excuse to go diving through the dustier corners of our liquor cabinet to taste bottles we haven’t sampled for a while, in search of fresh perspectives. ![]()
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