Name: Jack Daniels – Sinatra Select
Color: Dark Brown
Nose: Sweet mash mix, soft oak, apples, vanilla
Taste: Honey, vanilla, butter scotch/cream, dark fruits
Review:
19 Days until Christmas! Do you have all your gifts and bottles ready?!?
In honor of Hoboken’s favorite son, Old Blue Eyes himself, I shelled out some money to sample Jack Daniels Sinatra Select in honor of The Chairman of the Board. This expression was created in honor of Frank Sinatra, and it was said he was buried with a flask of Jack Daniels.
This whiskey is very smooth with caramel cream and dried dark fruit notes. It is aged in “Sinatra barrels” which have deep groves in the staves and get extra toasted oak to allow the whiskey to absorb the flavor of the barrel. It is is non-age stated with a mash bill of 80% corn, 8% rye and 12% malted barley. It is bottled at 90 proof and expensive for being Jack Daniels, but it has an advantage that it is a 1 liter bottle, not the standard 750ml size.
Sinatra expression has almost no taste comparison to No.7 Jack Daniels. It is extremely smooth and very easy to drink. There is no charcoal, banana skin, or rough mash finish. If regular Jack Daniels was even half as good as this expression, I would drink it regularly drink Jack Daniels. But, it is not, so I do not drink Jack Daniels.
Priced around $165 and I would not spend the money on this for myself, but if you know someone who is Jack Daniels drinker and Sinatra fan it would make a wonderful gift.
As of June 2021, I am having a hard time finding a bottle in any stores in the NYC area.
If you like it, drink it! – Christopher
If you like it, drink it!
