Liquor Acquisitions 2023, 2024

[ggiese]

Picked this up at our local grocery store - for $45! This was produced by the guy who started Whistlepig. He sold Whistlepig and now has started a new distillery. Well worth $45 if you're partial to rye whiskey!

 

[Acclaym]

I think I lucked out - retail at a local grocery store of all places….

UPDATED: At the urging of my son, I've cracked this bottle to sample the contents and all I can say is "where have you been all of my life!!!" Amazing nose (likely sounds crazy, but I could definitely smell traces of the Rickhouses it had been stored in!), mouth feel and long warm finish. Love the smoothness of 14 years of rest, followed by 4 months of the complexity added by the cognac barrel staves mixed with the heavily toasted staves the whiskey was finished in. All kinds of wonderful flavors (wish I could be more specific them other than to say the flavor is very "complex"). I will continue to pursue what the specifics are about the flavors that I'm experiencing, but sad to say I can only enjoy this experience through the end of the bottle because I can't imagine ever finding another bottle at a reasonable price...

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One of the best bottles posted in while. A unicorn for sure.

 

[lucasbuck]

 

[ggiese]

One of the best bottles posted in while. A unicorn for sure.

I still can't believe I found something like this in a grocery store - at SRP...

 

[bfreebern]

I still can't believe I found something like this in a grocery store - at SRP...

One of my locals, has this bottle for $740.

 

[JoeMO]

Finally cracked it. Letting it breath for a bit.

 

[lucasbuck]

 

[lucasbuck]