![]() ![]() On the palate, notes of cracked black, white, and chipotle pepper are supported by salted caramel pudding, bittersweet dark chocolate, caraway seed, and pumpernickel bread drizzled with sweet orange blossom honey on top. On the nose, it offers notes of intense brown baking spices such as allspice, clove, cinnamon, and mace, with black licorice and old saddle leather. It spent 5 ½ months in a 300 liter freshly dumped Armagnac barrel, so it has picked up a considerable amount of barrel spice and tannin content. That barrel was a beast! Cigar Blend Bourbon Batch #15 - The Spice Bombīatch #15 is perhaps the spiciest batch of Cigar Blend released to date. And as a final final, batch #13 came from a particularly spicy freshly-dumped Armagnac cask, so In reality, the only cask finished notes you should be tasting would be the Armagnac, which is a radically different spirit from Cognac. Since I use about 10 to 20% of the regular Joseph Magnus Triple Cask in the blend, that means that legally, we're required to specify the Cognac and Sherry casks. Finally, I only use Armagnac casks for the finishing. 6 first refill casks) Cigar Blend Bourbon Batch #12 Cigar Blend Bourbon Batch #13īatch #13 (written on front) is actually a blend of 13.5 to 20 year old MGP stock, much of which utilizes the 36% bourbon recipe. Started the MSRP price of 199.99 used first refill casks like the 1st batch (1-4. ![]() Cigar Blend Bourbon Batch #3īatch 3 was a pick from The Bourbon Cartel. Finished in: a PX Sherry cask, a Cognac cask, and an Armagnac cask. With a thick, oily mouthfeel that leaves all of those flavors integrating well into a generous finish that exhibits the perfect amount of heat at 100.7 proof. On the palate, it’s decadent southern dessert: toasted pecan, vanilla bean, and butter brickle perfectly layered with sweet fig jam and dark berry cobbler. It's one of the best noses I have had in a long while. The nose on Cigar Blend is sexy, with sweet tobacco smoke, dark fruit, and vanilla sugar. The Armagnac cask finish lends fruity notes of fig, prune, and dried apricot. A combination of our award winning Joseph Magnus Bourbon, with 11 and 18 year old whiskeys, the Cigar Blend assumes bold, rich aromas of tobacco, spice, leather, vanilla, blanched almonds, and toffee. Limited Edition - 504 Bottles Total - Created by Magnus Master Blended Nancy Fraley, Joseph Magnus "Cigar Blend" Bourbon is artfully blended specifically to drink when enjoying a fine cigar, and is possibly the first bourbon post-Prohibition made expressly for this purpose. While non-age stated, it is known the first batch of the Cigar Blend includes 11-year old bourbon, 18-year-old bourbon, with about 25% of the Joseph Magnus Straight Bourbon (a 9-year-old bourbon finished in PX, Oloroso, and cognac casks). This final blend is then finished in Armagnac casks. Cigar Blend Batches,Release Dates & Ratings for Each BatchĬigar Blend Bourbon Batch #1 - The Original
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