Review #886 - Jack Daniels 10 Year Batch 04

Jack Daniel's launched their 10 Year Tennessee Whiskey with a first batch in 2021; this was the first time that Jack Daniel's had released a whisky with a double-digit age statement in over 100 years. This has now become an annual release, along with 12 Year and 14 Year versions; here we have Batch 04 of the Jack 10, which was bottled and released in 2025.

Other than the age statement, Jack Daniel's doesn't really tell us much about this whisky. We do know that it still uses the Lincoln county process of charcoal filtration between distillation and barreling; at bottling, the strength is reduced to 48.5% ABV (97 proof).

Jack Daniels 10 Year Batch 04

USA - Tennessee

MSRP: USD 85 (2025)

Available Price: USD 160 (2026, based on recent auction results)

Age Statement: 10 Years

Strength: 48.5% ABV

Details: Batch 04, bottled 2025

Tasting Methodology: Reviewed 3 times over 1 month; bottles at 40%, 30%, and 20% fill levels at times of review. Tasted in a nosing glass each time, rested 15+ minutes

Nose: Leather and dried banana chips, dark chocolate, barbecued oak; some sweet grain mixes with vanilla and charred orange peel. There's plenty of wood smoke and some subtle brown sugar as well; later, we find banana bread, pecans, and an increasingly strong tobacco scent.

Palate: Oak is more drying and dominant on the palate - wood smoke, leather, spices of nutmeg and black pepper. We do get some mild sweetness from flavors like caramel-coated bananas, vanilla, and brown sugar; more charred wood notes add tannins. The mouthfeel has a medium thickness at most.

Finish: Soft leather, both sweet oak and dry smoky oak, hints of charcoal. It begins to mellow out; vanilla cake combines with freeze-dried banana, oranges, and clove. It remains a relatively drying profile throughout; the finish has a medium length.

Final Note: We really loved the nose on this whisky, but once we got into the palate, it felt a little bit more one-dimensional in some tastings due to the drying oak dominance. It isn't a bad palate, we just wish it had a bit more texture (from a higher strength) and some more balancing sweet notes. There were subtleties here and there, but we really had to dig for them.

Overall, it's still a good bottle, but for us, no more than 'good.' We think that, at the suggested retail price, the value is decent, worth a purchase; however, as this is a limited release, secondary prices are still floating quite a bit higher. At the current secondary value (based on auction results) of about $160, we would pass.

Our Rating: 7.2 / 10

In the current whisky landscape of increasing prices and variable quality, we've added a value rating to our reviews that relates to the score and the available pricing of each whisky. This roughly equates to a 0-10 scale; no reviews so far have exceeded a score of 10, although it is technically possible for the formula to produce a value rating higher than 10 with a high enough score and low enough price.

Value Rating (MSRP): 6.52

Value Rating (Available Price): 5.28

About Us: We're a husband and wife review team living in the Midwest United States. Generally, our reviews and tasting notes will be a compilation of both of our experiences with a whisky over several tasting sessions.