Quick Profile
- Proof
- 90 Proof (45% ABV)
- ABV
- 45%
- Age
- 18 Years
- Style
- Single Barrel
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Traditional Bourbon
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice and Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, honey, and vanilla.
An extensively aged single-barrel bourbon with mature oak, spiced vanilla, honey, orchard fruit, chocolate, and a lingering pepper finish.
What Defines This Bottle
Single Barrel
Whiskey drawn and bottled from one individual cask rather than mingled across many; a bottling method, not a mash bill or flavor profile of its own.
A bottling choice, not a production step upstream of it -- the whiskey ages and is distilled the same way as the distillery's other releases, then gets pulled from one specific barrel rather than blended with others before bottling. Bottle matches here come from a bottle's own name explicitly naming it a single barrel release, not an independent barrel-count field -- see this style's own Explore Bottles section for that caveat. See Rickhouse Science for how a barrel's own floor level and rick location can make one single barrel taste different from its neighbors.
Learn about Single Barrel →Age
This bottle carries a stated age of 18 years.
Mash Bill (Grain Bill) The recipe of raw grains milled and cooked for fermentation, defined by its dominant grain -- corn for bourbon, rye for rye whiskey. Learn more
Traditional Bourbon: 78% Corn, 10% Rye, 12% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Heaven Hill Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (Char #3 standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Dozens of multi-story, open-air wooden rickhouses located across Nelson and Jefferson counties.
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