Bourbon

For the Milam & Greene Single Barrel, each cask is individually rated, bottled and handpicked from Milam & Greene's growing collection. The team only bottles whiskeys that meet the distillery's criteria. The Straight Bourbon is then bottled from a single cask that holds 53 gallons (about 200 litres). Each cask yields about 280 bottles and the cask number, alcohol content in volume percent and alcohol content in American proof are handwritten on each label.

The Garrison Brothers have set themselves the difficult goal of distilling and maturing whiskey in Texas. This is not so easy, as it sometimes gets so hot there in the summer that normal barrels can no longer withstand the environmental influences. So the team had barrels made from extra thick staves and was able to bring the first legal Texas Bourbon onto the market. The Balmorhea spent four years in a fresh white oak barrel before it was transferred to a second fresh white oak barrel and stored for another year.

The Legent was created in collaboration between Fred Noe, Master Distiller at Jim Beam and Shinji Fukuyo, Chief Blender at Suntory. The Kentucky Straight Bourbon matures for around eight years in freshly charred white oak barrels in Kentucky and is then partly matured in red wine, sherry and ex-yamazaki barrels. The special edition is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey produced by Fred Noe in Kentucky from American grain. The whisky then travelled across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, where it was matured and recombined at the Suntory Yamazaki distillery, the birthplace of Japanese whisky, on the outskirts of Kyoto. Maturation took place in carefully selected French oak wine casks, Spanish oak sherry casks and sherry casks previously used for Yamazaki single malt Japanese whisky.

Mark Twain is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon that was distilled at the Heavens Hill Distillery and bottled at Mark Twain Distilling Co. The bourbon has an alcohol strength of 40%.

The Kentucky Straight Bourbon is made according to a traditional recipe with selected ingredients and limestone water by the master distillers. The whiskey is the standard and also the entry-level bourbon of the house and was filtered through charcoal before maturing for at least 4 years in oak barrels.

Founded in 2008, Breckenridge Distillery is one of the highest distilleries in the world, located 9,600 feet (2926 metres) above sea level. The water for the whiskey was obtained from the melting snow of the Rocky Mountains. This creation is aged in charred American oak casks and received a finish in Pedro Ximénez casks from Jerez in Andalusia. The sherry was stored in these barrels using the solera method, whereby the wood absorbs old and young distillates and later releases them back to the Bourbon during refining.

The Nevada Smoke Wagon Uncut is bottled at cask strength as a small batch. The high rye content in the combination of younger and older distillates provides balanced and creamy hints of sweetness, caramel and combines with the natural spiciness of the oak barrels.

The Maker's Mark Private Select for Kirsch matured in a cask that was customised together with a Kirsch import employee and two emissaries from the Marker's Markd distillery from staves of different cask types. These include Baked American Pure staves, two Seared French Cuvée staves, staves from a Maker's 46 cask, Roasted French Mendiant staves and three Toasted French Spice staves. Thanks to the individual composition of these staves, the specially crafted barrel imparts a dark sweetness and hints of peanut butter to the Kentucky Bourbon.

Woodford Reserve MC Sonoma Triple Finish was created by Master Distiller Elizabeth McCall, who was inspired by previous creations and experiments at the Woodford Distillery. The Woodford Reserve MC Sonoma Triple Finish has two special features. Firstly, the finish in a Pinot Noir cask and the maturation in a brandy cask. The limited edition combines these two highlights from the famous Sonoma County wineries. The wineries matured their red wines in used Woodford Reserve barrels and developed the new genre 'Bourbon Barrel Aged'. Sonoma County wines are characterised by rich vanilla and caramel notes. This fact and the positive reaction of the Woodford Reserve fan community inspired Elizabeth McCall to experiment with different combinations of the three wines and also to refine this Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey in the wine barrels from Sonoma County in which Woodford Reserve was originally stored.

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Founded in 2008, Breckenridge Distillery is best known for its blended Bourbon whiskey, an American-style whiskey with a high rye mash content. The distillery itself is one of the highest distilleries in the world, located 9600 feet (2926 metres) above sea level. The water for the whiskey was obtained from the melting snow of the Rocky Mountains. This creation is aged in charred American oak casks and received a finish in a 223 litre Tawny Port cask from Portugal. This makes the flavour profile mild and pleasantly sweet with a spicy finish.

The Maker's Mark Private Select was matured in a cask that was customised from staves of different cask types. These include staves from American and French oak barrels, as well as from an in-house Maker's Mark 46 barrel. The individual composition of the different barrel staves creates a unique, richly flavoured Bourbon.

This straight bourbon consists of 5 to 7 year old bourbons, which have a slightly higher rye content and are blended together. All of them matured in burnt-out barrels made of American white oak. The George Remus Straight Bourbon Whiskey is bottled without cold filtration, with a drinking strength of 47 percent by volume (94 proof) and is a tribute to the courageous namesake. George Remus worked as a pharmacist during Prohibition and was able to smuggle and sell his Bourbon creation under the guise of medicine.