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Whiskey Review: Sagamore Reserve Vintner’s Finish

We review Sagamore Reserve Vintner's Finish, a rye whiskey finished in Port and red wine casks.

OVERALL RATING

8
$58.00
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Sagamore Reserve Vintner's Finish

Tasting Notes

About:

The mash bill consists of rye, corn and malted barley. It’s a blend of straight rye whiskey finished in Port and other red wine casks. A bottle of Vintner’s Finish retails for $58.
Appearance:
It’s earthy and brown like a maple tree, with hits of orange fall leaves. The legs form a triangular zig zag pattern dripping quickly down the glass.
Nose:
The cinnamon is huge and slightly overpowering. There are notes of dark cherry and vanilla bean and coffee. On the back end, notes of a ripe blackberry bush on a hot day waft into the scene. The wine barrel-aging adds light sweetness and fruit scents, although I wouldn’t call it fruit-forward.
Palate:
The Cinnamon and the powdery flavor from Big Red gum, followed up with a sweet french vanilla. My mouth puckered up a little bit with the taste of copper pennies before the whiskey mellowed out with notes of wine-soaked oak barrels. It’s a nice flavor journey, not very long with a nice balance of flavors.
Finish:
Comments:
I appreciated the complexity of the whiskey and how the taste changes in unique ways. The only thing I wasn’t excited about was the cinnamon flavor that’s present and forward throughout. I would open up a bottle of this around Christmas to share with my whiskey-loving uncles.

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.

Shauna McKnight

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