I’d heard good things about Bob Dylan’s whiskey–a lot more celebrity spirits are respectable than you might expect. Turns out when your whole career is image-conscious, you try to not to align yourself with amateurs. What I hadn’t heard was just how exotic it could get. The new Bootleg VI release takes bourbon to places I’ve quite frankly never quite experienced, and while it’s arguable whether or not those frontiers are far enough to justify $500, depending on your budget and the arrival of the bourbon bust, memorabilia collectors and bourbon explorers are both going to want to give this a go.
Some pricey bourbons are worth getting the bottle, because for what a bar would charge, you might as well just go a little deeper in and enjoy the whole thing over time yourself. This one falls, I think more under, “Worth paying $30 or so for a pour” to experience it, even though you could quite happily work through the entire bottle and then sell the empty to a Dylan collector to recoup some of it.
My tasting notes and further thoughts are now up at Tasting Table. Guess I have to try the regular lineup now.