Wattie Boone & Sons 9 Year Old K&L Exclusive Single Barrel #1136 Cask Strength American Whiskey

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Wattie Boone was a pioneer and settler in the early days of Kentucky statehood and credited with being one of the first to distill a whisky called – Bourbon. His distillery just outside of Bardstown near Beechfork isn’t far from where the Preservation Distillery sits today. The owners of that distillery made the Wattie Boone & Sons name famous in Japan selling old stocks of Kentucky Bourbon in that market, but have relaunched the brand at their new home near Bardstown. This single cask was distilled in Tennessee and filled into a re-used barrel that had its staves grooved and re-charred. The whisky was than aged in Kentucky for 9 long years. This unusual product is one of the first cask strength single barrels to make it to California and K&L’s cask was bottled in the original Wattie Boone bottle instead of the modern wide shoulder bottle the distillery currently uses. Although not bourbon in name it drinks like a well aged Kentucky bourbon and represents one of the most unusual and exciting finds we’ve seen in along time. Bottled at cask strength without chillfiltration only 180 bottles were produced at 59.1% alcohol by volume.