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Garrison Brothers Guadalupe 2025 Review

Garrison Brothers' Guadalupe 2025 bourbon impressively balances sweet bourbon characteristics with the depth of port cask finishing. This complex Texas whiskey opens up beautifully with each sip, revealing layers of red fruits, caramel, and coffee.

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9
$159.99
  • Charles Steele is an attorney and whiskey enthusiast with a penchant for the peculiar.
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Garrison Brothers Distillery has unveiled its 2025 Guadalupe bourbon, a limited-edition whiskey finished in port wine barrels that will support Texas coastal preservation efforts through a special cask strength release.

The Hye, Texas-based distillery will release approximately 8,600 bottles of its Guadalupe Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey, with the first 1,000 available at a July 12 distillery event. The 107-proof bourbon undergoes a distinctive aging process, spending four years in white American oak casks followed by two years in tawny port casks.

This year marks a significant addition to the Guadalupe line. Garrison Brothers will offer 1,000 bottles of Guadalupe Cask Strength Single Barrel at proofs ranging from 123.9 to 129.8, priced at $219.99. The distillery will donate $50 from each cask strength bottle sold to Gulf Trust, a conservation organization focused on Texas coastal resilience. “Water makes the whiskey. Guadalupe 2025 is bold and beautiful—shaped by Hye’s wild Texas temperature swings, then proofed with rainwater we harvest on our 68-acre ranch,” says Donnis Todd, Master Distiller at Garrison Brothers.
Appearance:
Port – Slow long legs
Nose:
Peppercorn, white plums, port wine influence, sweet white sugar, coffee, banana, and oak.
Palate:
Caramel, roasted corn, orange zest, plums, honey, raspberries, cigar tobacco, and oak chips.
Finish:
Buttery mouthfeel, just coats the mouth. Nice clean finish with a warm port wine on the back end. Coffee beans with honey linger.
Comments:
Warm and good. This is a surprising whiskey and a nice dram. It has sweet bourbon notes but also the depth of flavor your looking for in an port aged product. The red fruits blend beautifully with the grain to create a lovely dram of whiskey.

To me this is complex and opens as you drink. It really takes a few trips to the glass to find ‘most’ but not everything. I think this is a bottle that will continue to impress for a long time after you’ve opened it. Share it with important people but don’t try to save it for too long. I think once you open this you’ll invent reasons to drink 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.

Charles Steele

Charles Steele, a Portland-based attorney, is a native of the Pacific Northwest. His legal background provides him with an analytical approach to understanding whiskey and other aged spirits. Primarily a legal writer, freelancing for The Whiskey Wash offers Charles a unique opportunity to showcase his versatility as a writer. Although his preference lies with whiskey and whiskey-based cocktails, he has a profound appreciation for all unique and unconventional liquors, from Malört to Ojen - if it's peculiar, he's intrigued.

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