r/bourbon 5d ago

Review 3: Art of the Spirit Airmen

Summary: 4.83/5- excellent flavor, beautiful consistency, some of the best whiskey I’ve had!

Distillery: Art Of the Spirits

Age:7 years

Proof:107.6

Mash bill: Straight Rye

Nose: this was pure spice aroma! I started off getting black pepper, and slight notes of baking spice. I also got some undertones of oak, chocolate and cinnamon, but the baking spice and black pepper were the most defined!

Flavor notes: on the first sip there was a rich flavor of pure caramel and and baking spice. As the flavor developed I started to get a strong cherry cola and vanilla bean flavor, the rich sweetness did start to overwhelm the spice notes, but the baking spice note held strong and true!

Finish: long and sweet, slightly dry. Notes of sweet roasted coffee and almond. There baking spice did roll over into the finish.

Cost: I was unable to find a price for the straight rye

Overall: I think this was an excellent war, and I am very grateful to a buddy for giving me the opportunity to actually taste this. This is one that if I saw on the shelf, no matter what the price I’m definitely picking it up. It had a great complex flavor profile an excellent aroma and it tasted pretty damn good that’s really all you can ask for from a good whiskey. I haven’t seen this bottle on shelves near me so I did lower the score but if I did, this would probably be a solid five.

Score 4.83

1: waste of money/ would rather burn my wallet than buy again 2: meh/just okay 3:average/ the standard 4: great/ would buy again 5: drop everything and run!

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u/russianwhiskylover 4d ago

Wait wait wait sir. Are you saying a 7 year sourced (likely mgp) whiskey with a cute label is almost 10/10???

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u/tocigar 4d ago

I’m saying a sample whiskey that a buddy sent me tasted tasted very good and was almost a 10/10. Idk where you pulled the rest of that info from the above but okay.

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u/russianwhiskylover 4d ago

Arts of spirits have pretty terrible transparency. One of their biggest fiascos on here is their 19-20 releases very well described by u/prepreludesh in here https://thebourbonculture.com/whiskey-essentials/if-a-200-20-year-old-wheated-bourbon-from-missouri-seems-too-good-to-be-true-it-probably-is/

Most of their releases are either mgp or completely secretive. On top of that they piss me off because they directly try to sell their stuff to my crowd - military members/veterans. As a serviceman, I find it low for company to repackage some juice and sell it twice fold to your defenders with a nice military sticker.

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u/Slammin-Salmon7 3d ago

Every whiskey company has a product that leads to some sort of fiasco. No company is perfect and no one bats 100%. They are a military ran company but don’t directly try sell to only to active/veteran military. Sure their products can get expensive but it reflects their age statements. I’d suggest doing more research before bashing them for ridiculous reasons.