Jack Daniel's Distillery Series Selection #015 Sweet Mash Distillery Exclusive Straight Tennessee Whiskey (2025) 37.5cl

Jack Daniel's Distillery Series Selection #015 Sweet Mash Distillery Exclusive Straight Tennessee Whiskey (2025) 37.5cl

Jack Daniel’s latest Distillery Series Selection is an experiment in time. Distillery Series Selection #15 focuses on Jack Daniel’s sweet mash versus their traditional sour mash. According to the company, “at the beginning of each distilling season, the Jack Daniel Distillery uses a sweet mash process during the cooking of grains. This sweet mash will kickstart production before establishing a setback to support our sour mash process for the remainder of the distilling season.” Selection #15 utilizes the standard Jack Daniel’s mashbill, and the company states that this sweet mash whiskey “was aged on the top floors of Track 2 barrelhouses at the Jack Daniel Distillery for almost nine years before being batched and bottled.”

Having spent nearly 9 years in oak on the top floors of the rickhouse, you’d expect the aging conditions to impact the whiskey, and it does, with an instantly noticeable mahogany colour when pouring into a glass. The whiskey opens with a sweet aroma, with a focus on various candy-like notes. The midpoint of the sip rides in on a velvety note of sweet butterscotch hard candy before changing over to a more oaky and spiced focus affair. These flavours ride out into the finish, adding burnt brown butter and baked pie crust before fading away. Fans of the brand looking for a bold spice-forward sip that is interlaced with sweet influence will be right at home

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Cinnamon | Butterscotch hard candy | Charred oak | Maple sugar candy | Vanilla syrup | Peeled green apple

Palate: Butterscotch candy | Rye spice | Vanilla | Caramel covered apple | Charred oak | Black peppercorn

Finish: Rye spice | Burnt brown butter | Spiced caramel | Baked pie crust | Oak

About Jack Daniel's

Jack Daniel's is the best-selling American whiskey in the world. Despite that fact it can legally be categorised as a straight bourbon, it has always shunned this title, preferring to market itself as a Tennessee Whiskey. These are similar to straight bourbons but have the additional requirement of having been filtered through maple wood charcoal, a practice known as the Lincoln County Process. History has not always given the distillery an easy ride though. Tennessee was an early adopter of Prohibition in 1910, and one of the last to repeal it in 1938 (five years later than the repeal at Federal level). Even today the distillery is still located in a "dry" county, meaning none of its products are sold in its hometown or those around it. The distillery was then only operational for four years before being forced to close again during the second world war. Ten years later it was purchased by the Brown-Forman corporation and its fortunes turned for good. Its classic black-labelled Old No.7 brand (named after the distillery’s original DSP number) is now a globally recognised product.

53.5% ABV

37.5cl