Bob Dylan’s New Bootleg Vol. II Whiskey Review

Bob Dylan has launched the second version of his Heaven’s Door Bootleg Series whiskey this winter—warming up the season with Bootleg Vol. II; it’s tropical, with a rum end.

Dylan’s whiskey model launched in 2018, debuting three sourced whiskeys together with a rye and a bourbon. We had been followers of these tasty bottles (despite the fact that they had been slightly typical). Since then, he’s been busy getting bizarre in one of the best ways doable.

Whereas these preliminary releases had been devoted crowd-pleasers for the broader whiskey lover, the limited-edition Bootleg Series debuted final yr with a unusual pedigree: a low-rye bourbon aged 26 years and completed in Japanese Mizunara oak, one of many rarest oak species on this planet (and a scrumptious ending ingredient when well-applied).

We had been followers of that whiskey, and so we anticipate massive issues from the newly introduced Bootleg Vol. II.

It needs to be famous, by the way in which, that for the time being all Heaven’s Door whiskey is sourced, not distilled in home. While a distillery has been created for the model, none of this inventory (or any for the subsequent half-decade) will come from it.

Volume II doesn’t have the spectacular age assertion of its predecessor, nevertheless it’s equally engaging. The second launch will function 15-year-old bourbon inventory completed in Jamaican pot nonetheless rum casks.

“Distinctly richer with slightly tropical notes from the fermentation process,” Heaven’s Door explains, “this cask strength 104.6 proof Tennessee whiskey boasts an abundance of maple syrup on the nose, with a finish that brings forward notes of toasted coconut, holiday spice, and toasted oak, where the influence from the sugar cane and rum extraction shines.”

One attention-grabbing factor to notice is that this launch discloses that the whiskey in query underwent the Lincoln County course of—a charcoal mellowing filtration course of frequent to Tennessee whiskey makers. The course of is finished after distillation and earlier than barreling, which might imply this whiskey needed to come from one among two distilleries which have been working that lengthy: Dickel or Jack Daniel’s… and Dickel is thought for promoting sourced inventory.

According to the distillery, Bootleg Vol. II is bottled in handmade ceramic bottles that “feature one of Bob Dylan’s classic paintings, Sunset. Monument Valley, housed in beautifully designed and individually numbered collectible leather journals.”

Only 3,000 bottles of this uncommon whiskey can be found, with a steep price ticket of $500 a bottle. That’s not unusual lately for uncommon inventory releases, as a lot as we hate to confess it…and at 15 years, that is sufficiently old to be some actually one-of-a-kind whiskey.

Grab one right here.

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