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Sweetens Cove Dunwoody Wheat Bourbon Review

What happens when pro athletes team up with a master distiller to create bourbon? This 6-year wheated expression proves it's more than just a celebrity vanity project.

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Tasting Notes

About:

Sweetens Cove is a small Tennessee golf course owned by professional athletes Andy Roddick and Payton Manning among others.

This release, according to Sweetens Cove press release represents their refined wheated expression aged 6 years. Rich, mellow, and lingering like the memory of a final putt for birdie— or a sun-drenched afternoon with friends who feel like family. Enjoy neat or on the rocks or mix into your favorite cocktail in the most indulgent of sweet spot moments.
Appearance:
Dark Copper
Nose:
Apple wood, tart hazelnuts, cinnamon, lemon, clove, grass, and wood.
Palate:
Sawdust, dark cigar wrapper, plum, allspice, multigrain cracker, touch of white cake batter.
Finish:
Drying, oily mouthfeel, medium dark chocolate hold.
Comments:
This opens up and only gets a better profile, and is a little meatier version of the 5-year. As a wheat bourbon the typical sweetness and mellow nature of the whiskey is married well with darker and dryer complexity. This is a nice bottle of wheat whiskey without the frills.

Certainly a drink worthy of reaching for after completing a round of golf, regardless if you’re over/under par. Even way over.

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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