John E. John E. Fitzgerald Very Special 20 Year Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey – 375ml Bottle

The ideal gift! Buy the best bourbon online. Price and reviews available for John E. John E. Fitzgerald Very Special 20 Year Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey – 375ml Bottle. Comprised of 12 barrels of wheated bourbon produced at the Stitzel-Weller Distillery, original home of Heaven Hills Old Fitzgerald and direct ancestor to the celebrated Larceny brand, the ultra-rare, highly allocated release offers both an extraordinary sensory experience and a glimpse at the DNA of Bourbon lore. Heaven Hill acquired the Old Fitzgerald line of wheated bourbonsthe flagship brand that legendary whiskey man Pappy Van Winkle produced at his original Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Shively, KYin 1999, seven years after these barrels were filled and put up in the Stitzel-Weller rickhouses. After Heaven Hill acquired the Old Fitz line, these barrels were transferred to Warehouse Y at Heaven Hills Bardstown campus where they aged on the first floor, allowing long, slow and balanced maturation. They were transferred into inert tanks in 2013 to arrest the aging process and preserve the incredible taste until they were bottled. The 12 original Stitzel-Weller barrels were dumped together and bottled at 90 proof or 45% alcohol by volume. The barrels were not chill filtered, meaning the whiskey retains more of the natural esters and fatty acids than whiskey that has been chill filtered to remove these flavor compounds, providing a richer mouthfeel. The John E. Fitzgerald Very Special Reserve offers rich cocoa and vanilla notes with a long, refined finish and the softness that a wheated mashbill provides. The bottle is cut glass crystal and has the label information directly applied onto the glass, along with a gold and platinum key graphic, which hearkens back to the Larceny logoa keyand commemorates Fitzgeralds role as the treasury agent who held the keys to the warehouse. The bottles have an ornate satin finish metal closure with a cork, and a strip stamp on the neck and the face label both prominently feature the 20 Year old age statement. In addition, each bottle comes packed inside a handmade wooden box with die-cut keyholes and hinged doors that close with magnets. These 12 barrels represent a golden age in bourbon history, but also tie the past into our current Larceny and Old Fitzgerald brands, said Heaven Hill Co-Master Distiller Denny Potter in a statement. The bourbon is the renowned wheated mashbill that Pappy Van Winkle developed for Old Fitz at Stitzel-Weller. Its aging has been carefully managed to ensure it will be at its best, with two different aging regimens and locations so that it will not be over-aged or tannic.