In 1983, just a few years after the Hoffman distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, closed its doors, it was purchased by a striving, slightly desperate whiskey bottler named Julian Van Winkle III.
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Kentucky Tavern Whiskey BIB Pint 1911-1924 Green Wax Seal
Today Kentucky Tavern is a barely remarked upon, bottom-shelf whiskey distilled at the Barton distillery, which sits on the southern side of Bardstown and is owned by Sazerac.
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Dougherty’s Private Stock Pure Rye Whiskey 13 Summers Old 1916 – 1930
Dougherty’s is among the best known and relatively easiest to find among Prohibition-era whiskeys today, largely because it was among the best-selling whiskeys of its day.
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Blood Oath MMXV Very Limited Release Straight Bourbon Whiskey Pact #1 2015 3 Bottles in Wood Box
John Rempe, the master distiller at Luxco, created the Blood Oath series in 2015 as an opportunity for him to play around with blending outside the company’s normal volume-driven whiskey brands – and, in that same vein, to raise the company’s profile.
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I.W. Harper Special Reserve 16yr BIB Bourbon Whiskey 1917-1933
The Bernheim family, German Jewish immigrants who settled in Kentucky in the late 19th century, rank among the whiskey industry’s most important names.
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Golden Wedding Full Quart Aged in Wood Bottle in Bond Whiskey 1908-1924
Though it dates back to at least 1869 as a Pennsylvania rye whiskey, Golden Wedding is most interesting as a time capsule from the tumult of the Prohibition era.
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A.H. Hirsch Reserve Colonel Randolph Very Rare 16yr Bourbon 116 proof 1990 bottled for Julian Van Winkle
The whiskey in Colonel Randolph comes from the same legendary batch of 400 barrels made at the Pennco Distillery in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, in February 1974 and later bottled, predominantly, as A.H. Hirsch.
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Blanton’s Golden Promise Bbl #4
As the story goes, Blanton’s was something of a hail Mary pass.
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Michter’s Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey 20 yrs
It’s a rare thing to find a 20-year-old bourbon that doesn’t taste like sucking on a church pew.
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Martin Mills 24yr Old Bourbon
The practice of exporting American whiskey to foreign
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