Baby Blue Corn Whiskey

Wine information: Baby Blue is not only Texas' first legal whiskey since prohibition, but also the only blue corn whisky made anywhere. Balcones Distillery located in Waco, Texas, was founded by head distiller Chip Tate in 2008. Balcones Baby Blue is made from 100% roasted Hopi blue corn It is used in many ceremonies representing long life, wisdom, understanding, and the strength that comes through overcoming hardship. Americans have innovated the use of corn in whisky since we first set foot on this continent.  Baby Blue is not white lighting nor bourbon.  It has the freshness and verve of a traditional corn whisky but with a refined complexity added by brief aging in small oak barrels.  It has a round nuttiness and roasty overtones with a smooth finish.  By legal definitions it could be labeled as a bourbon, but it is not essentially a bourbon in character. Bourbon is largely dominated by the flavors of the wood in the barrel; the new charred oak barrels give bourbon is defining and recognizable flavours, colour and aroma.

Tasting Notes: Packed with a rich, roasty nuttiness that is truly exceptional. It has the freshness and verve of a traditional corn whisky but with a refined complexity added by brief aging in small oak barrels.  It has a round nuttiness and roasty overtones with a smooth finish. There are flavours and aromas of butter, masa corn meal, marzipan / toasted almonds, smoked chillies, dark chocolate, fresh baked bread aroma. The brief aging in oak certainly contributes some of the recognizable oak notes and characteristic of bourbon, but these flavours do not dominate the rich corn flavours.

This is not a stock item but we should be able to get it in stock within 4-5 working days. Please phone 01329 822733 for any further information.

 
   

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