GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:42 am
Normally I prefer JD green label, to me it's the smoothest over ice.
We used to drink Green Label back in the day at UMass (early 80s) but it's been really tough for me to get the last few decades. It is described online as:
"A less-aged variant JD, difficult-to-find but well worth the effort. Green Label is lighter and much less sweet than the normal black label No.7 and is brilliant in cocktails."
The whiskey for that label comes from barrels in the center/lower part of the barrelhouse -- where it doesn't get the daily or seasonal temperature extremes that the barrels on a side wall or the top layers will see. Those temp extremes cause the whiskey to go in/out of the charred wood of the barrels, adding color and flavor. For the last many years, the green label stock has been used to make their Winter Jack, Honey Jack, Fire Jack or Tennessee Apple variations (yes, I have them all), but a couple of years ago I found a bottle of Green Label in Nashville, at the airport gift shop of all places, and was able to fly it home to Maine. And my boss just shipped me another bottle recently when he was in Nashville.
The Single Barrel variations -- SB, SB Select, SB Barrel Proof and even the Sinatra Select (which its special barrels) -- all come from the top tiers of the barrelhouse and are my favorites. But I do partake of the others from time to time -- in moderation, of course.
Some day, I'll have to line up all my varieties of Jack -- including 2 versions of the JD Rye I have -- and take a "family picture". I'l bet I'll have almost a dozen different types (not just bottle designs, but whiskey flavors or proofs).
Cheers.
Old No7
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