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Bourbon Review: Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon (Spring 2021)

We review the Spring 2021 release of Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Clocking in at eight years old, it's the youngest one yet.

OVERALL RATING

8
$85.00
  • Scott Bernard Nelson is a writer, actor, and whiskey reviewer.
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Michter's 10 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon (2021)

Tasting Notes

About:

Appearance:
Nose:
Brown-sugar cookies and classic bourbon sweetness, with notes of maple and honey. Underneath, though, you find the fruitiness of warm apple pie with a sprinkling of cinnamon on top. See a theme developing? In short, this smells like dessert in a glass.
Palate:
Rich and sweet butterscotch. It settles quickly in the back of your throat, leaving a hint of brown sugar. This is nice bourbon, and tastes like a good Kentucky bourbon should. But it doesn’t have layers to unpack like some of the more complicated whiskies you might find elsewhere. What you taste right up front is what you get, and it doesn’t linger long.
Finish:
Comments:
I had previously tasted the spring 2019 Old Fitz 13-year-old, and came away impressed. So I certainly looked forward to giving the latest bottling a once over for The Whiskey Wash. I was impressed again this time, though admittedly a bit less so. That might be the difference between a 13-year bourbon and an 8-year bourbon, of course. This one was just a little bit less complex and a little bit more straightforward. Regardless, it’s good whiskey and it comes with a laudable pedigree and a beautiful bottle. If you can find it at the MSRP, I’d recommend adding this one to your shelf.rn

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

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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