Jack Daniel’s is a smooth and beautifully balanced Tennessee Whiskey that
fuses subtle fruit flavors with caramel, vanilla oak characters. Triple charcoal
filtered for a sweet, smooth flavor, from the coolest distillery in the US.
The whiskey has a prominent woody taste and the charcoal, burnt tastes come
through as well. There is not much of the fruity taste that I sometimes could
sense in the nose. But there has some balancing sweetness in the whiskey to
counter the burnt taste that is nowhere near overwhelming or too harsh.
It's the oldest registered whiskey in the USA. Mr. Jack Daniel registered his
product in 1866 and went on to win his first gold medal at the World’s Fair in
1904. This is quite a feat for ayoung man that bought the distillery from a
Lutheran minister in 1863. The distillery is still located in the dry county of
Lynchburg, Tennessee where they still use the 100% lead-free water Mr. Jack
andMr. Call (the minister) used in the 1860s. During the prohibition and World
War II, production ceased. The distillery moved once, but the family tradition
drew the brand back to its roots and they have never deviated since.
Jack Daniels distills the whiskey first and then runs the product drop by drop
down 10 feet of packed, charred sugar maple. This “charcoal-mellowing” takes
approximately ten days but it helpsfilter our the harsh impurities and tastes
associated with “moonshine.”
Jack Daniels then stores the whiskey in American White Oak barrels charred on
the inside for four years. These barrels are used only once.
