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Guadalupe’s tasting notes for the sensuous, creamy liquid include a full berry fruit, ripe plums, strawberry butter on flaky morning biscuits, Betty Crocker moist chocolate cake, cinnamon, lavender honey, and toasted coffee beans. He selected 90 thirty-gallon bourbon barrels that had been originally filled in 2015. Todd discovered that the magic maturation combination was four years in white American oak casks and then two additional years in the tawny port casks. These connections are just as special to me as the bourbon we have produced,” said Todd, in a press release. “Over the past decade, we’ve built lasting friendships with great people across the world as we searched for the perfect port barrel. These flavor characteristics have great appeal to a bourbon maker. Older, fine Tawny Ports have an even wider array of subtle flavors including graphite, green peppercorn, hazelnut, almond, butterscotch, and graham cracker. Port is a sweet wine with flavors of raspberry, blackberry, caramel, cinnamon, and chocolate sauce. It’s so unique, in fact, that only Portugal-made Port can carry the identifying term “Porto” on the label. Many are exclusive to Portugal, which makes Port wine from Portugal unique. There are more than 80 grape varieties grown in Portugal’s Douro Valley. He started to connect and work directly with winemakers in Portugal to secure rich and juicy port casks directly from the source. The result: Estacado, a limited 2019 release of port cask-finished Texas straight bourbon whiskey.Īt this same time, Todd then began sourcing for a more expansive port cask bourbon project. Garrison Brothers’ master distiller Donnis Todd aged a 4-year old bourbon in the port casks. Garrison Brothers gave the winery 20 wet bourbon barrels and the winery gave the distillery 20 of its decades-old port casks. Llano Estacado is one of Texas’ oldest and most beloved winemakers. In 2015, Hye-based Garrison Brothers began an exciting collaborative project with local winemaker friends at Llano Estacado in the Texas Panhandle. Guadalupe’s release has been over six years in the making. Guadalupe is a port cask-finished bourbon that will be available year round.
Named Guadalupe, to pay homage to one of the state’s most beautiful rivers, the Texas Straight Bourbon is bottled at 107 proof. It makes gift-giving for your special Longhorn all the more fun.Garrison Brothers Distillery, the first legal bourbon distillery in Texas, has released a new expression to add to its portfolio. Garrison Brothers Small Batch bourbon is easiest to find deep in the heart of the state-but hunt around. New this year, a Payne-Mason line of cigars specifically designed to pair with Garrison Brothers products makes stocking stuffing and gift giving a no-brainer for $19.95, the Torpedo Garrison arrives pre-infused with the company’s Small Batch bourbon. There’s also the port cask-finished Guadalupe bourbon ($130), the 115-proof twice-aged Balmorhea micro whiskey ($168), and a HoneyDew whiskey ($91) infused with Texas wildflower honey. For a wilder experience that packs some sweet heat, buckle up for a finger or two of the unfiltered 131-proof Cowboy Bourbon. The company releases a new Small Batch expression ($91) every year for customers wanting to build a collection. The result is a richly hued, caramel-forward product with notes of sweet corn, apple, toasted pecan, and autumn spice. The intense climate in Hye, Texas, where the Garrison Brothers distillery sits pretty, north of San Antonio and west of Austin, lends itself to a non-traditional aging process prolonged heat encourages the corn-to-cork bourbon to soak in every bit of seasoning from the charred American oak barrels as it rests. Small batch bourbon leads the roster for Garrison Brothers (photo courtesy of the brand)