In the mouth, the applejack is all about the mid-palate. What’s that they say? “Seek and ye shall find?” This exercise is a minefield of awareness versus perception. Sniffing the glass and thinking of citrus, I can fool myself into thinking there is some dried orange peel too.Īnd I say that half in jest, but half in truth. There was something a bit floral that some people read as vanilla, but I’m going to call honeysuckle. ![]() The smell has a lot of sweet elements to it. Some spirits are known to have caramel color added to aid their appearance. The distillery was surprised, actually, at how much color it had after only a year. ![]() It has picked up this color after a year of aging in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels. The color of the spirit is between pale gold and hay. Given the subjective nature of taste, yours may vary. Those who do it for a living develop a kind of shorthand.īut just like a professional spirits review, the description of smells and flavors that follow are just one person’s perceptions of what is coming out of the glass. Sure, separating aromas and flavors into their component pieces and then trying to slap names on them to make them recognizable to others sounds like it should be a piece of cake. I do not make a habit of pontificating about wines or spirits, because it is hard freaking work. You are going to have to cut me some slack. So I had the place mostly to myself, and got to talk for a while with Derek and Collin about their work and their plans for the future.īut first let me tell you a little about the booze. But in reality, people don’t buy booze on a snowy Tuesday before noon. Part of me feared that people would be lining up early to get their hands on one of the few hundred bottles from the first batch. The fact that this traditional but long-abandoned use for apples is being resurrected in our backyard is very special. If you live in or around Albany, you have no excuse not to visit the distillery. Yesterday was the first day their Cornelius Applejack was available for sale, and I was among the first to buy a bottle of the stuff. ![]() Last week, I wrote about my excitement for the impending release of Harvest Spirits’ first batch of applejack.
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