Doc Pepe's Lab Rye Old Fashioned Cuvée Reserve (75cl, 38%)

Doc Pepe's Lab Rye Old Fashioned Cuvée Reserve is a ready-made, barrel-finished cocktail in a 75cl bottle. It is built on Kentucky rye whiskey, cane sugar and Angostura bitters, in the Prohibition-era style. The Cuvée Reserve barrel is never fully emptied, so each bottle carries traces of every earlier batch. Bottles are numbered, with batch and barrel details on the front, and the cellar master decides the final blend. On the nose there is caramel, fresh cigar and grilled peach. The palate brings vanilla cola, ginger, dark caramel and butterscotch, followed by milk chocolate and clove on the finish.