Yellowstone Limited Edition 2021

I’d like to thank ByrnePR and Lux Row for providing this review sample with no strings attached.

We are going to do something a little different tonight. Normally, my wife and I do tastings together and the published tasting notes are an amalgamation of each of our notes. Well, I couldn’t do that this week because my wife isn’t here. She is spending the week with her mother on a trip to Yellowstone National Park. Her mother had never been and wanted to go before she died. Not that my mother-in-law is in immediate danger of dying, but she is almost 80 years old. So there is only so much time left.

By a weird coincidence, last Friday, I got a sample of the latest edition of Yellowstone Limited Edition bourbon. I thought it only fitting to send a healthy sample with my wife so she could do her tasting notes of Yellowstone Bourbon while she visited Yellowstone National Park. As you can see in the photo above, I did mine at my desk.

My very dusty desk.

The 2021 edition of Yellowstone Limited features a mixture of seven-year-old and fifteen-year-old bourbons with some of the seven-year-old having been finished in Amarone wine casks. Amarone is a dry, rich, Italian red wine made from partially dried grapes and aged for at least in oak casks. The suggested retail price of the 2021 Yellowstone Limited Edition is $99.99.

So now, back to the something different. Since our tasting notes were conducted about 1000 miles apart and done with no interaction between the two of us. I thought it would be fun to publish both sets of notes without combining them.

Yellowstone Limited Edition Bourbon, 2021 edition

Purchase Info: This sample was sent by the producer for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $99.99.

Price per Drink (50 mL): $6.67

My Wife’s Notes

Nose: Vanilla, caramel, and cherry.

Mouth: Almond/cherry, caramel, cinnamon (spicy), and sweet baking spice.

Finish: Warm and medium length. Cinnamon and almond/cherry notes.

Thoughts: I love it!

My Notes

Nose: Vanilla ice cream, black cherry, and caramel.

Mouth: Dry and spicy. Notes of cinnamon, tobacco, brown sugar, and black pepper

Finish: Dry, spicy, and pretty long. Nutty with more cinnamon, cherry, and black pepper.

Thoughts: This is one of those bourbons that I enjoy much more in a "drinking glass" than I do in a tasting glass. Lucky for me, I hate drinking out of a Glencairn. My usual rocks glass accentuates the fruitier notes where the Glencairn seems to accentuate the drier aspects of the drink. This is pretty good. It isn't my favorite of the Yellowstone Limited releases, I like a sweeter whisky usually. But this is no slouch either.

Oh and this was the view out of my wife’s cabin at Old Faithful tonight.


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Remus Repeal Reserve Series V

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Thanks to the magic that is Comixology Unlimited, I’ve found myself reading a lot of old comic books lately. For as long as I remember reading, I remember reading comic books. I’ve always read a wide variety of books. From novels to history textbooks, the fantastic to the non-fiction. I just love stories. I love reading them and I love writing them. It’s one of the reasons I start these reviews with as many personal anecdotes as I do. But comic books were always there in the mix of my reading choices. Lately, I’ve been digging deep into DC’s Vertigo lineup from the late 1980s and early 90s. I was too young to read these when they came out, but I was introduced to the Sandman in college and have revisited it periodically over intervening decades. Sometimes it’s nice to revisit something that you just know is going to be good.

I feel that way about tonight’s bourbon too. I’ve reviewed every iteration of Remus Repeal Reserve and I’ve liked every single one. MGP makes fantastic whiskey, even if their choice of namesake leaves a bit to be desired. (Speaking of rereading old content, I wrote about George Remus way back in 2017 during the first release of this product. I think it was pretty good. If you haven’t read it before, give it a look.)

Series V of Remus Repeal Reserve is a medley of two different MGP produced bourbons, their 21% Rye recipe (mash bill: 75% corn, 21% rye, and 4% barley malt) and their 36% Rye recipe (mash bill: 60% corn, 36% rye, and 4% barley malt). They use a combination of ages of these recipes in order to make the final product. And as usual, they give you the percentage breakdown right on the front label. Series V is made from 9% 2005 Bourbon (21% Rye), 5% 2005 Bourbon (36% Rye), 19% 2006 Bourbon (21% Rye), 13% 2008 Bourbon (21% Rye) and 54% 2008 Bourbon (36% Rye).

Let’s dive in and see how it tastes.

Remus Repeal Reserve Series V, 2021

Purchase price: This sample was graciously provided by the producer for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $89.99. Releases September 2021.

Price per Drink (50mL): $6.00

Nose: Green apple, clove, caramel, nutmeg, and oak.

Mouth: Nice and spicy. Cinnamon, oak, caramel, and almond.

Finish: Spicy and long. Nutmeg, almond, black tea, oak, and caramel.

Thoughts: This is one to keep an eye out for. I've been a big fan of most editions of Remus Repeal Reserve, and I'm fully aware this might be recency bias, but I think this might be the best yet. This one is getting a heart. I love it and I'm really hoping to get my hands on another bottle when it releases in September.


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Blood Oath Pact 7

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IMAGE: Bottle shot of Blood Oath, Pact Seven and a Glencairn glass with the Blood Oath Logo etched into the side. Photo Courtesy Lux Row Distillers.

I am very much a guy that likes to do it myself. If I have a choice between learning to do something and doing it well or paying someone to do it perfectly, I will take the opportunity to learn a new skill every time. I do most of my own repairs around the house. And sure, at first it was just because I didn’t have the money to pay a repair person. But eventually it was because I knew I could do a job. I just didn’t know how to do it yet. And with all the world’s information at my fingertips, learning is just a Google search away.

Of course that doesn’t mean that I don’t occasionally pay an expert. Any plumbing job more complicated than installing a dishwasher or faucet goes right to the experts. These folks know what they are doing and are much less likely to cause damage to something else in the house than I am.

One of the other things that I tend to turn to the experts for is blending up a tasty bourbon. While I dabble in blending on an amateur basis, and while my efforts are unlikely to cause damage to the house. I do find that most of the folks who do this for a living do it better than I do. And tonight we are looking at a bourbon from one of the best blenders in the business: Lux Row Master Distiller John Rempe. I’ve been a big fan of almost every one of his premium (and many not so premium) releases from Lux Row.

Tonight we are looking at the seventh edition of Blood Oath to come from Rempe. Blood Oath Pact 7 was created from three bourbons that use rye as their flavoring grains: a 14-year-old, an 8-year-old, and an 8-year-old that was finished in Sauternes casks. Sauternes is a sweet white wine from Sauternes, France, a town in the Bordeaux region.

Blood Oath, Pact 7

Purchase Info: This 200 mL sample was provided by the distillery for review purposes. The suggested retail price is $99.99.

Price per Drink (50 mL): $6.67

Details: Blend of 14-year-old Bourbon, 8-year-old Bourbon and 8-year-old Bourbon that was finished in a Sauternes cask. 98.6° proof.

Nose: Vanilla, bubblegum, a savory herbal note, and oak.

Mouth: Caramel, apricot, honey, cinnamon, and oak.

Finish: Medium in both length and heat. Notes of cinnamon, oak, and stone fruits.

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Thoughts: Good, not great. I like it, but not as much as I have previous Blood Oath releases. I probably won't be buying this one if I run across it. But that is mainly due to price. It's a good whiskey, but whiskey needs to be something really special for me to drop $100 or more on a bottle. At half the price it would be a no-brainer pick-up. As it is, it really depends on your bourbon budget.


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