Product description
Balcones Distillery was built by Chip Tate in Waco, Texas in 2008 (Chip designed the still himself and welded it).
Its product range includes corn whisky (distilled from blue Hopi variety), bourbon and single malt. Balcones Baby Blue was the first whisky made in Texas since the Prohibition. What distinguishes Balcones from other microdistilleries is the aging process. Small batches of Balcones single malt are aged in different size barrels before being vatted together to finish maturation in one big barrel. In total the whisky spent about two years in wood (Texas hot and humid weather accelerates aging process), it is bottled at 53% abv without chill-filtration.
Nose: pretty rich for a young whisky, malt, toffee, cinnamon, vanilla, honey, baked plantains and traces of coffee beans.
Palate: malty, slightly spirity, apples, pears, vanilla, brown sugar, toffee, raisins, hints of tobacco and hay.
Finish: pretty long and warming, nutty, with notes of dark chocolate and wood spices.