Jack Daniels Coy Hill Single Barrel Barrelhouse 8 141.1 Proof 2021

Jack Daniels Single Barrel Coy Hill Barrel Proof 141.1

The Coy Hill Special Release differs from the regular Jack Daniel’s Barrel Proof in that it was aged at the top of one of two rickhouses on Coy Hill, the highest point on the Jack Daniel’s distillery property. But, this is the standard Jack Daniel’s extremely low rye bourbon mash bill, and while uncut in charcoal-filtered like all Jack Daniel’s whiskey. This particular bottle was aged nine years and one month and hit an incredibly high proof of 141.1. 

The color is an amazing mahogany color – this whiskey is so incredibly red that it is more comparable with whiskies much older. Gravity-defying oily legs on the swirl. The nose is incredible – dark cane syrup, Amerena cherries, with hints of vanilla, dark chocolate, and dark caramel. On the palate, you would not guess this was over seventy percent alcohol. Very rich mouthfeel, and drinks more like 120 proof. Juicy Amerena cherries, dark chocolate, rich Latakia and Perique pipe tobacco, baking spices, and clove are present on the palate, with lovely oak in the background that is not overly done. On the finish the cherries fade and the clove mingles with the oak tannin, which starts out big then decrescendos to a drying oak mild finish before lingering for a long time.