Tasting Notes

Nose: Fruit salad with oranges. Honey, custard, barley water and nougat. Café late with brioche.

Palate: Orange juice, natural vanilla, raisins and maize bread.

Finish: Caramelised pear tart. Ginger, cinnamon and bay leaves.

About this Chapter 7 Whisky

Blair Athol is one of Diageo's workhorse distilleries. Much of its malt whisky ends up in Bell's blended scotch. It's a beautiful distillery built in 1798 in Pitlochry. Majority of Blair Athol casks destined for blending are ex-bourbon barrels. It has a nutty character resulting from cloudy worts and short fermentation. Allowing controlled levels of solids coming across in the wash still adds a deep, rich meat loaf character.

Penelope Bourbon Toasted Series explores new and unique expressions of our signature four grain straight bourbon whiskey. After full maturation in charred new American oak barrels, we finish Penelope Bourbon in a new, freshly toasted barrel. Each batch is a unique blend of our signature three bourbon mash bills and all have different custom chars & toasts – making each bottle unique and different. The barrels selected for this series are the best our inventory has to offer and go through an extensive hand-selection process.

Barrel #: 175

Proof: 112.8

Year Distilled: 2015

Mashbill: 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% Malted Barley

Bottle Yield: 219

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Sugar cookie, buttered corn bread, mild rye spice, and caramel

Taste: Creamy texture w/ notes of orange, vanilla and caramel

Finish: Tangy cinnamon gives way to baking spices, berries, and lingers with notes of sweet oak.

Thick, creamy, and balanced!

Barrel #: 7426875

Proof: 93

Bottle Yield: 258

Distillation Date: 06/20/2016

Age: 5.5 Years

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Toasted oak, butterscotch, sweet tobacco, and vanilla

Taste: Easy sipping with notes of warm vanilla, honey drizzle, toffee, and tobacco

Finish: Caramelized wood sugar and vanilla cream

Smooooth and delicious. Has "daily sipper" written all over it!

Cooperstown Distillery’s award-winning Cooperstown Select Straight Bourbon Whiskey in a premium ornamental baseball bottle. Excellence and baseball - this limited edition offering is the absolute best of both worlds! Available only while supplies last.

Who We Are

Rare Character Whiskey is a purveyor of fine American whiskey, focused on unique selections tailored to each of our customers and partners. Through special relationships with top distillers across the country, Rare Character has exclusive access to expressions that have never been released to the public.

With ambitious plans for future projects including new brands, special collaborations, novel barrel finishes, and more, Rare Character aspires to breathe life into the American whiskey category. Our dedication to innovation and evolution is driven by profound love and respect for incredible bourbons and ryes.

Our Character

Through our unprecedented levels of access, strong emphasis on customization, and our driving motivation to challenge industry norms, Rare Character strives to bring you American whiskeys unlike anything you’ve tasted before. Our skillful team is dedicated to helping our customers create whatever they see as “the perfect whiskey”. We say yes where others say no.

Rare Character is a company born from a deep passion for amazing distilled spirits. We aim to pay respect to tradition, while simultaneously uplifting those who challenge the status quo. We know that American whiskey lovers have an appetite for unknown, interesting whiskeys, and we're in a unique position to provide access to some of these beautiful expressions. We believe people are tired of the same old whiskeys, and they're ready to be challenged by ones that have something to say. After all, what's a whiskey without Character?

The Single Barrel Series is the flagship product line from Rare Character Whiskey—unique and rare American whiskey expressions from distilleries across the country. Each barrel is hand-selected by Pablo Moix, with only whiskeys of the utmost quality making the cut.

AWARDS:
2017, Gold Medal - Beverage Tasting Institute

Bottle Size: 1000ml

Enjoy the following cocktail recipe:

1 L Wild Turkey 101
20 g cardamom seeds
150 g dried, unsweetened cranberries
3 sticks cinnamon

In a wide-mouthed glass infusion jar, place the Wild lurkey 101 and the cardamom seeds. Close and leave in a cool dark place for 1 day. Strain out cardamom and add the cranberries and cinnamon. Close and leave for another 2 days, agitating once per day. Strain solids and store in the original Wild Turkey bottle with proper labeling.

This is a Private Pick Selected by the members of the NEBCo. Barrel #16-12 was selected by 6 members of the group during a virtual barrel pick. This specific barrel was chosen for it complete bourbon profile (Nose, Palate, and Finish), how approachable it is for those new to cask-strength. bourbon, and the complexity it presents for those more experienced with higher proof bourbon.

In May 2021, Lord Hobo Brewing Company (Woburn, MA) picked up seven Kentucky bourbon that housed whiskey used in the production of Batch 2021-03 of New England Barrel Company’s (NEBCo.) Small Batch Select Bourbon. These barrels were then filled with a stout developed by Lord Hobo and left to sit for just over four months.
In September 2021, these barrels were emptied of the stout and brought back to NEBCo where they were filled with single barrels of Kentucky Bourbon aged 3 years, 11 months, and 14 days.
The bourbon was allowed to finish for 3.5 month in these barrels adding complementary notes of the chocolate, toffee, and hints of coffee to the underlying bourbon.
Bottled at cask strength and lightly, non-chill filtered for your enjoyment and drinking pleasure, Barrel 17-45 is limited to 196 bottles.

ABV: 56.8%
Product Type: Bourbon Whiskey

The honor the legacy of Calumet Farm and its second Triple Crown-winning horse, this exquisite bourbon has been crafted with the same passion and dedication that lead Citation to victory.

A masterful union of three well-bred ryed bourbons. All with exceptional pedigree. We open with a bold 14-year old that evokes rich butterscotch and hints of chocolate. Next, and 11 year old excites the palate with a sweet and spicy nose of vanilla and cinnamon. And lastly, and 8 year old finished in Calvados casks, delivering notes of juicy pears and ripe apple, reminiscent of the oak barrels previous like.

Giddy up, cowboys and cowgirls!

This Collector's Edition Bourbon Whiskey is sure to bring a tasty shot to your taste buds! No, seriously. Each bottle is shaped like a revolver, so you are literally bringing a tasty shot to your taste buds! With six ceraminc revolvers per case, each gun with four ceramic shot glasses, your taste buds will be pleased with the mashbill balanced with notes of vanilla, caramel, cinammon, and fruity essences.

ABV: 40%

Case Configuration: 6 x 375mL

Case Size: 23" L x 17.5" W x 10" H

Case Weight: 29.2 lbs

Cases Per Layer: 4

Layers Per Pallet: 8

Cases Per Pallet 32

UPC: 0 20357 12268 2

Country: USA

Bail Hayden 10 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey is a special, extra aged seasonal offering that will be made available as a limited edition whiskey each holiday season. Bottled at 80 proof, the extra maturation of this high rye bourbon in American oak barrels is said to offer “an additional layer of complexity” that “delivers heightened oak aromas along with hints of char and vanilla while maintaining Basil Hayden trademark spice in every sip.”

We employ a four grain mash bill of corn, barley malt, wheat and rye to achieve a softer bourbon that emphasizes malt and rye. Expressions unique to each barrel of spiciness on the nose with a long finish of butterscotch, caramel and tobacco.

Maker Notes

Basil Hayden Subtle Smoke features the same high-rye mash bill that Basil Hayden loyalists know and love, but uses secondary aging to deliver a unique, layered flavor with a refined hint of smokiness.

We begin by toasting and lightly charring the secondary barrel. This is followed by delicately igniting hickory-smoked chips at a constant feed to produce smoke, which is then pumped into the barrel, resulting in notes of soft char and light butterscotch. This unique flavor provides a smoother, more subtle take on smoky spirits, and creates the perfectly sophisticated, yet approachable introduction to both bourbon and Basil Hayden.

TASTING NOTES

COLOR: Deep, rich amber with copper undertones

AROMA: A mellow smoke character with a hint of sweet vanilla

FLAVOR: Soft char with a light sweetness reminiscent of butterscotch and maple

FINISH: Crisp yet delicate smokiness with light toasted hickory wood

Each spring and fall, a new edition to the Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond series is released. Inspired by an original 1950's Old Fitzgerald diamond decanter, the packaging and series honor both the history of the Old Fitzgerald brand and the historic Bottled-in-Bond designation. The Old Fitzgerald line is well-known for its distilling pedigree, as the brand was first registered in 1884 and was eventually sold to "Pappy" Van Winkle during Prohibition. In 1999, Heaven Hill bought the brand and began distilling it at Bernheim Distillery in Louisville, KY. Today, in addition to our Old Fitzgerald Decanter Series, the legacy of Old Fitzgerald lives on in our other wheated Bourbons expressions: Larceny Small Batch and Larceny Barrel Proof.

Heaven Hill Distillery announced today the release of Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 17-Year-Old Barrel Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the first edition of the new Heaven Hill Heritage Collection celebrating the distillery’s exacting maturation standards. Each spring, this annual, highly limited release will feature some of the distillery’s oldest inventory of aging whiskey.

The Collection will feature one of the six traditional American Whiskey mashbills produced by Heaven Hill. The first edition features Heaven Hill’s Bourbon mashbill comprised of 78% corn, 10% rye, and 12% malted barley, and bottled at a barrel proof of 118.2. With an age statement of 17 years, this release is made up of 28% 20-year-old barrels, 44% 19-year-old barrels, and 28% 17-year-old barrels pulled from Deatsville, Glencoe, Schenley, and Heaven Hill main campus warehouse locations. Each spring, the release will vary as older barrels are deemed worthy of bottling.

The Peacekeeper American Bourbon Whiskey is bottled at 40% Alc/Vol. Bourbon is a type of American whiskey, a barrel-aged distilled liquor made from at least 51% corn.