Pocahontas Bourbon of the Year Award - Elijah Craig
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 2:30PM 
The Pocahontas Best Bourbon Of the Year AwardIt is only fitting that as a discussion and review of fine bourbon that UKnowIamRight selects what we deem is the best bourbon of the year.
The coveted The UKnowIamRight's Pocahontas Best of the Bourbon Prize has been awarded to Elijah Craig. You deserve this award and thank you for a great product. You can hold your head high.
Picking a bourbon of the year is a challenge. UKnowIamRight studied the subject for 365 long days. To make the test official we interspersed our tasking with Moosehead Beer.
As most awards of this type the winner is totally subjective with a splash of objective analysis.
Elijah Craig is a product of the Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. This is a family-owned business that has grown to a diversified portfolio of brands that includes The Christian Brothers Brandies; Evan Williams and Elijah Craig, vodka, gin, rum and your old friend Dubonnet Aperitif. But enough of the corporate stuff...they make a great bourbon.
Elijah Craig - 12 years old 94 proof. I could go on about the notes of currants, chocolate, tobacco but every time I taste a great bourbon it is a different experience. That is good because each time I am different also. Elijah Craig finds my undertones which is so much easier.
Sipping - It is clean, it hits you at the right spot in your gills, its 94 proof and it says "Here I am, enjoy me." It melts in my mouth with gusto, a bite and then the smoothness I enjoy. This is a bourbon I can linger with. Look over the Florida glade and waters and ponder the day and my life. Yes good sippin'.
It mixes well. Lisa likes to mix her bourbon with a menagerie of bubbles, it works well for her and admittedly when I tase her concoction there is no dissappointment. She used it in our mint juleps, Craig runs great on Derby day and throughout the warm summer.
Egg Nog...OK I like egg nog...I have moved from brandy to bourbon and here again Elijah Craig did not let me down.
The true test of a great bourbon is frankly if you keep on coming back. Elijah Craig falls into that mid 20's range. That is I can purchase it for about $25 give or take. I am pretty confident that we tasted most of the brands in this range. Yes we drank Bulleit, 1792, Buffalo Trace and a bunch more. But the key to the award lies in the recycling bin. Yes we kept on buying tasting another brand (usually several times per brand) and kept on going back to Elijah Craig.
Heaven Hill Distilleries' Bourbon Heritage Center won the "Visitor Attraction of the Year" Award and now they have won the The UKnowIamRight's Pocahontas Best of the Bourbon Award.
BTW - They don't get the statue.
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