LEXINGTON BOURBON WHISKEY
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:05 pm
Have any of you guys tried this bourbon? If so, what did you think of it? I just saw it for the first time at a liquor store today. I might pick up a bottle on Monday.
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Squire wrote:...For the price of one bottle of 86 proof, no age statement Lexington Whisky, in the really attractive bottle, I can get two bottles of 7 year old 101 proof Ezra Brooks. Before I plonk down $28.00 Lexington will have to convince me their product is twice as good as the older, higher proof well established brand.
gillmang wrote:John, I must disagree with you and the Squire as to the merits of the current Ezra Brooks 101 7 years old. I find it corny and young, disappointing. True, it comes at a reasonable price, but that would be its main merit, IMO.
According to [the] chronology by Mike Veach [...]the brand was, if I read him right, developed in the late 1950's by 21 Brands Inc., a subsidiary of Publicker Industries of Philadelphia, PA, and later acquired by Medley in Owensboro. So it was a distillery brand originally surely.
I should add, that in the late 80's when I first bought the brand, it was great: heavy-bodied, well-aged, classic rich old American bourbon. And the 12 and formerly 15 year old versions sold by the current owner are excellent, similar to the brand as I remember it then. But the 7 year old 101 seems quite different to me.