Hoot + Howl (or Hoot and Howl, in case you like) is a Colorado distillery that simply launched in 2025, one in all its first merchandise being a bourbon completed in an Armagnac barrel. The sourced product begins with a seven 12 months outdated bourbon from MGP that spends a full further 12 months within the brandy barrel earlier than bottling.
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Hoot + Howl Armagnac Cask Bourbon Evaluation
The Armagnac cask has finished an actual quantity on this whiskey, the nostril brooding with cloves and anise, the spice character coming to a boil with extra time in glass. Peppery and mushroomy, the whiskey’s savory facet beats down extra layered notes of caramel and brown sugar, in the end evoking incense and dusty, vintage rug store aromas.
The palate is equally pastoral and savory, these dusty textile notes turning into leathery with time in glass, finally turning into a bit nutty, heavy on the walnuts — shells and all. It’s barely pruny on the midpalate — and that’s about all of the fruit you’re going to get right here. Cloves make a powerful reprise on the end, with flavors of very darkish chocolate and licorice lingering. All advised, although I gravitate to sweeter kinds of bourbon, I actually loved the extra cerebral presentation of the spirit, which successfully evoked some fond reminiscences of time sipping Armagnac in France.
100 proof.
B+ / $79
Hoot + Howl Armagnac Cask Bourbon
USD79
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