Woodford Reserve 2019 Holiday Artist Special Edition Bourbon Whiskey 1000 Ml

Woodford Reserve 2019 Holiday Artist Special Edition Bourbon Whiskey

The mash bill for Woodford Reserve 2019 Holiday features a high percentage of rye: 72% corn, 18% rye, and 10% malt. Unusual also for being triple distilled and having the lowest proof upon entering the barrel. Where it matures for at least six years. A must-have Kentucky bourbon. Makes a wonderful Old-Fashioned cocktail!

Over the years, the brand has won countless awards thanks to its exquisite range of premium whiskeys. And to ensure that you won’t run dry before you want to, this limited edition bourbon comes in a 1 Liter bottle.

The Woodford Reserve brand comes from a storied past. It’s distilled and bottled at the old Labrot & Graham’s Distillery. Which started operations in 1780. Through the years the site has been home to several different whiskeys including Early Times. Which was the most recent whiskey to be produced on the site prior to Woodford Reserve. While production stopped and the distillery was abandoned in 1973. It was eventually repurchased by Brown-Forman in 1993. And Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select was launched in 1996 as a “new breed of premium bourbon.”

Woodford Reserve 2019 Holiday Bourbon consists of a mixture of pot still whiskey distilled at the company’s Woodford Reserve Distillery in Woodford County, and column still spirits from the Brown-Forman Distillery in Shively, Kentucky. The exact mixing ratio is undisclosed, however considering the distilling capacity at the Woodford Reserve Distillery, it most likely leans to a large volume of barrels from the Brown-Forman Distillery in the mixture.

The painting on this limited edition bottle is “Warm Welcome” by Suzanne Enrique Dougherty, of the Woodford Reserve Visitor’s Center. It is a liter of excellent 90.4 Proof Woodford Reserve Bourbon.

Nose:

Quite thick and creamy. There are notes of honey and spice, leather, a touch of cocoa, a little smoke, toasty oak, and vanilla cream with a hint of butterscotch.

Palate:

Thick and full. There are notes of espresso beans, winter spice, cereal sweetness, plenty of rye, ground ginger, almond oil, toasty oak, and a little rum.

Finish:

Long and mature with notes of cereals and toasty oaken spice.