We stated it final time round with the very delayed Spring 2023 version of Previous Fitz, however we’ll say it once more: We’re not late on this “Fall 2023” launch, although you’re studying this in February 2024. To make clear: This second version of Previous Fitzgerald’s bottled-in-bond launch from 2023 was introduced round November and didn’t arrive on our steps till January 2024. Hey, what does “fall” imply today, anyway? Local weather change, amirite?
Tied with Spring 2021 for the youngest launch within the bonded Previous Fitzgerald library to this point, this wheated whiskey is 8 years outdated, distilled within the fall of 2015.
No large surprises right here, with a nostril of contemporary peanuts, well-integrated and barely leathery barrel notes, and a rising essence of caramel corn. Flippantly natural because it develops in glass, the whiskey ably mixes a perfumed high quality with a pleasant cookie character. On the palate I didn’t discover a whole lot of variance from the nostril, with sultry clean peanut butter notes dominating with a facet of vanilla cookies and milk chocolate. Touches of fruit right here — just a bit maraschino cherry and a few strawberry — transferring from there right into a flippantly charred, vaguely peppery end. Stable and fascinating from begin to end.
There’s loads in frequent right here with many a previous Previous Fitz — although my tasting notes from the final 8 12 months outdated bottling are relatively divergent, with the Fall 2023 expression missing any sense of greenery or grassiness. Which one’s the anomaly? We’ll have to attend for a 3rd 8 12 months outdated expression to seek out out, I assume.
100 proof.
A- / $110
Previous Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond 8 Years Previous Fall 2023 Version
$110
