Maker's Mark The Heart Release

Part of the Wood Finishing Series from Maker’s Mark, this is the ‘The Heart Release’ 2024. The Heart Release celebrates the team who distil the whisky, the people who sit at the heart of Maker’s Mark.
The Wood Finishing Series is a collection of Maker’s Mark bourbons that have been finished with custom cooked and designed wood staves, which are inserted directly into the barrel for a set period of time. The whiskey is ‘aged to taste’, according to the distillery team, which means a minimum of six years, and then the whiskey is finished with French oak staves.
The 2024 expression, was finished with two different kinds of staves that were cooked in different ways. Ten staves of the first type were placed to finish for five weeks in the distillery’s limestone cellar. That same process was then repeated for the second stave type, but finished for nine weeks, and the two whiskies were then blended together.
    Nose:    Caramel, chocolate and maple.
    Taste:    Wood, rum raisin, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon and toasted nuts.
    Finish:    Medium, rich and creamy mouthfeel.