Quick Profile
- Proof
- 94 Proof (47% ABV)
- ABV
- 47%
- Age
- NAS (~8–12 Year Blend)
- Style
- Small Batch
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Traditional Bourbon
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Smoky & Earthy, Fruity, and Spice notes. Specific descriptors include char / smoke, green apple, nutmeg, and toasted oak.
Father of Bourbon namesake; toasted oak, sweet vanilla, nutmeg, stewed apples, and light smoke.
What Defines This Bottle
Small Batch
Whiskey blended from a limited, curated group of barrels; an industry term with no fixed legal batch size, describing a blending approach rather than a recipe or flavor profile.
A blending choice made at the very end of the process -- barrels are selected and married together in a deliberately limited group rather than a distillery's full, larger-scale blending vat. Bottle matches here come from a bottle's own name explicitly naming it a small batch release, not an independent barrel-count field -- see this style's own Explore Bottles section for that caveat. See Process for how the same mash bill and barrel choices upstream of this step shape what ends up in that group of barrels to begin with.
Learn about Small Batch →Age
This bottle carries no single stated age. Federal labeling rules only require an age statement when a whiskey is younger than 4 years, so a bottle without one may be genuinely young or simply old enough that stating it became optional.
Does No Age Statement Mean It's Young? →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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