Tasting notes

nose

toasted almond, pecan and hazelnut, then caramel, vanilla, green apple and ripe pear, with a cool line of spearmint and baking spice over oak

palate

thin but oily; brown sugar, cinnamon and almond move into tart apple, raisin and leather, closing on mint, dried tobacco and toasted oak with caramel underneath

finish

medium; wintergreen, caramel and almond hang on with toasted oak and leather as the vanilla and apple fade, turning dry, toasty and faintly herbal at the close

Mash bill

A blend of two bourbon recipes, one of 75% corn, 21% rye and 4% malted barley and one of 60% corn, 36% rye and 4% malted barley; the ratio between them is not published. Both were distilled in Indiana by MGP, not in Holland. The 36% recipe is one of the highest rye shares a bourbon carries, and it gives the blend its mint and spice.

Awards

• Silver — Bartender Spirits Awards 2025

Why it's craft

This bottle marries fifteen barrels of Indiana-distilled bourbon aged nine years or more, which Coppercraft did not distill itself. Rather than cutting the whiskey with water all at once, its team lowers the strength in the barrel over several weeks and adds petites eaux before bottling, a process of about three months. Coppercraft opened in Holland, Michigan in 2012 and has been owned since 2016 by Windquest Group, the DeVos family office.