Oregon Distillery Adds New Oregon Oak Finished Bourbon

“On the nose you should smell a robust oak, pine mixed with smoky coals,” said Eastside master distiller Mel Heim in a prepared statement. “Once aerated, notes of fruitcake, apricot and caramel begin to be released. You will taste the unflinchingly 92 proof which undergoes a metamorphosis on the palate from peppery wood and bitter chocolate to tobacco, plums and vanilla.”

The bourbon is available mostly in Oregon at this point. The name Goose Hollow, by the way, refers to a storied Portland neighborhood that was officially established with this moniker in 1879—the same time the term bourbon became consistently used in the U.S. and Kentucky. Goose Hollow is nestled in the lower elevations of Portland’s West Hills near Tanner Creek, a forested lowland gulch in the SW side of the city.