I just hit 50 reviews today (I will always gladly trail the one and only Mike Veach in that category).
I went back over many of them in this last week or so................some were good, some not. But, my tastes have changed over this last year, mostly because I have tried many, many bourbons.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could draw up a nice neat list of best bourbons, but that would do no good, because it would not be yours. Out of the 50 that I have reviewed, I bet I would be happy with 30 of them, maybe even more.
I can truthfully say that I am less sure now about what makes a great bourbon than I was in those early days when I proclaimed that it was ORVW 15 YO that should wear the mythical crown.
At this point, I don't believe there is, or can be, a BEST bourbon. In the world of humans that concept makes no sense. But I sure know a lot of very good ones! One for Monday, another for Tuesday, yet a third for Wednesday, etc, etc.
It really is like that about a whole bunch of stuff now ain't it? The BEST always has a subjective element........after a while, it gets tiring...........