Whiskey Review: John Chester Ross & Sons

This is…very nice! It begins honey but not cloying, like a honey caramel and then tingles at the finish. The vibe is cinnamon pop-rocks—but without the weird artificial flavoring. As if you had a sip of whiskey and then a hit of a sparkling water. It’s a fun little frizzy fizz, like old timey Kansas City, I suppose. It’s refreshing, in a summery way, I do not often think about whiskey in the summer—and that is dumb. It’s sippable easily, maybe a little too easily. The port cask finishing adds smoothness and that sort of sweet without being too much, just enough to smooth out any rough edges, which I don’t think this whiskey has in the first place. I’d drink this neat and don’t think it requires a single droplet of water or sliver of ice.