Bourbon Enthusiast x Russell's Reserve Single Barrel BourbonLimit One Per Person The Bourbon Enthusiast Private Barrel Club Russell's Reserve Pick Barrel #: 18 0685 Warehouse: CN F Floor: 5 Barreled Date: 11 04 09 Bottled Date: 10 16 18 Barrel Proof (Before Bottling): 115 Bottle Yield: 150 TASTING NOTES: This barrel was pulled from Floor 5 of Warehouse CN F (Camp Nelson), which is the site that the Russell's Reserve 2002 barrels were also pulled. It is deliciously unique. There's some tasty fruit (cherry)

and produces wines from the Village level as well as some of the most prestigious Premier and Grand Cru vineyard sites

matured in large oak barrels is made with 100% Montepulciano d' Abruzzo grapes

this Gold Medal winner at the 2016 San Francisco Spirits Competition is then slow cooked the old-fashioned way in stone clay ovens for 27 hours to capture the full flavor of the agave hearts

and is the focus of the third bottling in the Nature Series from Mars Shinshu

A mixture of distiller selected reserve casks

4 proof)Cask strength/unfiltered

but instead of the usual rye or wheat supplement

The vines within Fourchaume are planted high on the slopes of the right bank of the Serein River

and the first bourbon to be made in New York

A faint hint of the sea can be detected

That level of provenance doesn’t come cheap

resulting in a high rye content that adds spiced character while balancing the sweet notes of corn