National Bourbon Day 2024
To wrap up the 2023/4 tasting season, we were invited on June 14 to the National Bourbon Day tasting, held as a garden party at the residence of his Excellency, the US consul to Toronto. We arrived at the mansion that houses the consul's residence and we found stands from a few bourbon producers set up around the garden as well as a stage piping out country music. We started the tasting at the Wild Turkey stand. This bourbon is aromatic with a deep aroma of wild berries. We proceeded to Angels Envy where we first tasted the bourbon, finished in port casks. It was very smooth with light herbal notes reminiscent of Jack Daniel's Rye. We were then treated to a tasting of a rare Rye from the same Angels Envy house. It was full of floral notes, and baked bread notes on the palate. The Hirsch distillery presented two bourbons: the Bivouac, a Kentucky straight bourbon and the Horizon, a straight bourbon made in Indiana. The Bivouac has warm orange and strawberry notes, while the Hori...