Jack Daniel's 2011 Birthday Edition Whiskey

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel

I tasted this Tennessee whiskey back in July 2016. Never judge a book by its cover or a review by its pic: despite the big ice cubes, my tasting order is always the same: neat, water, sparkling, ice, seltzer. Intense dark amber hue with caramel shades. Aroma starts mainly fruity (it surprised me, was expecting charred and caramely): pineapple,...

Score 85/100

Jack Daniel's Original (No.7)

This is the first whiskey I tried and I was quite pleased with it until I moved on to other, better whiskies. When I compared it to other whiskies such as Jameson, Maker's Mark, Tullamore Dew and Knob Creek, it seemed lacking in the quality that I saw in these whiskies. No one seems to know the significance of the Old No.7 label on the bottle,...

Score 67/100

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Silver Select

Lovely dark mahogany colour with long legs in glass. Nose: typical JD aromas but punched to a different level with the extra ABV, banana, caramel vanilla and wood char. Palate: caramel, wood and spice with too much alcohol bite, the balance and integration of the spirit is off, a little water helps with the bite but does no favours to the wood...

Score 78/100

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Silver Select

Jack Daniel's Silver Select is high strength but surprisingly mellow. Balancing with sweetness and spices, it is nicely complex and subtle. Every barrel is aged in a different location in their warehouse. Jack Daniel's Silver Select caught me off-guard. I really didn't expect much from it. Well, not a great one after all but still, 80 point dram,...

Score 80/100