This is a good bourbon at a decent price, even if the word “bourbon” never appears on the label. Uncle Nearest releases “premium whiskeys” rather than bourbons and, given it’s home an hour outside Nashville, likes to think of most of its products as Tennessee whiskeys. Except that, as Cary Ann Fuller wrote in The Whiskey Wash in October 2020, “Tennessee whiskey is bourbon. Let’s just get that part out of the way. This is not my opinion, but a statement of fact.”rnrnWe’ll set aside that argument for the purposes of this review, and just point out that a quality whiskey for $79 a bottle in 2023 is something to be applauded. So if you can find this barrel-proof offering, buy it – no matter what you want to call it.
Editor’s Note: This whiskey was either bought as a sample by The Whiskey Wash or provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies, this in no way influenced the outcome of this review.
Scott Bernard Nelson is a writer, actor, and whiskey reviewer based in Portland, Oregon. While currently working in higher education, he previously dedicated 22 years to journalism, covering impactful events such as 9/11 in Manhattan, crossing into Iraq with U.S. Marines, and contributing to The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of abuse in the Catholic Church, which inspired the film "Spotlight." Since 2019, Scott has shared his insights as a whiskey reviewer for The Whiskey Wash.
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