Fierce & Kind Straight Bourbon Whiskey JURARARE The 2003 came at the

The 2003 came at the height of the Christine Valette era

and refreshingly unpolished—in the best way

deep color

and vanilla

elevation-driven complexity

Fierce & Kind Straight Bourbon Whiskey JURARARE The 2003 came at theThis is the everyday bottle in the Fierce & Kind range, and it's built to be poured freely rather than hoarded. The mash leans on corn with a serious proportion of rye behind it enough to give the whiskey a peppery spine instead of pure sweetness and it's matured in heavily charred barrels before bottling at 90 proof. Expect caramel, vanilla, baked apple and toasted oak up front, then that rye pepper on the back end, all at a strength that stays