Review #223: Penelope Architect Crème Brûlée
Review #223: Penelope Architect Crème Brûlée MASH BILL: 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% malted barley AGE: 5 years PROOF: 110 COST: $60 for 750mL bottle (I’m reviewing a sample) The Penelope Architect line is made from the standard 21% rye bourbon mash bill from Penelope, and then finished in French Oak staves from their partner Tonnellerie Radox in France who uses a proprietary OakScan process to create the perfect flavor profile. When this particular Crème Brûlée expression first dropped, there was a very high demand for it (who doesn’t like a good Crème Brûlée . Locally, it was selling for around $100 a bottle pretty quickly after release. I really wanted to try it but just wasn’t quite in it for as much as people were charging for it. As the hype died down, prices did too. A couple local stores started selling it close to MSR P. As signs of the glut really started to show a couple months back, a few stores even dropped the price lower than MSRP. While I became pretty tempted to get...
