Thomas H Handy, Parker’s Heritage Wheat Whiskey and Abraham Bowman at Milroy’s of Soho – American Whiskey News
A TRIUMVIRATE OF BOURBONS
(AND WHEAT & RYE WHISKEYS)
We hinted last week that we had some interesting/Christmas-has-come-really-damn-early American whiskeys inbound. The great news is that they have now landed! Such is the calibre of these bottlings, that the mission we set our management team was to hold staff back from buying them before we could offer them to you guys!
Today we are offering the Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye (2014 edition), the Parker’s Heritage (8th Edition) Wheat Whiskey and the Abraham Bowman Double-Barrel Matured Bourbon. Please note we have extremely limited quantities of these whiskeys and they will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis by reply to this email.
In other news, if you didn’t get the chance to purchase the phenomenal 2010 George T Stagg we offered recently, we have held back just one bottle to be cracked at our inaugral Bootleggers and Bourbon tasting on the 29th June (£35 per ticket by reply to this email). We also have a rather smashing shipment of Weller Bourbons winging their way to us, including the 12 Year Old, the Old Antique and the Special Reserve. Plus, we have the Jefferson’s Ocean arriving soon too – keep an eye on our social media channels for more information!
Parker’s Heritage 8th Edition, Wheat Whiskey, 13 Years Old, 63.4%
A friend of the shop once said of the Bernheim wheat whiskey that, although it is great, it would be much improved by being bottled at cask-strength and with over 10 years of cask maturation – and that is exactly what has happened here. As it happens our friend was right on the money! The best way to describe the flavour of this whiskey is Pappy Van Winkle-esque. No it isn’t a Bourbon, but it perfectly captures the wheated nature of the Pappy and makes for a great drinking substitute. Oh – and it’s really rare… so quite similar then!
£89.95
Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye Whiskey (2014), 64.6%
This Thomas H Handy hails from the 2014 release of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. Expect big orange-y notes with heaps of wood spice and tangerine zest. This bad boy makes for the best Old Fashioned we’ve ever tried (if you’re feeling flush enough!). As with all Antique Collection releases, we rarely get parcels of this stuff beyond the annual release, so get it whilst you can!
£179.95
Abraham Bowman Double Barrel, 50%
We first tried the Bowman Brothers releases last year. These Bourbons are first distilled at Buffalo Trace in Kentucky before undergoing a second distillation in Virginia. We were taken aback by the balance and power of these Bourbons, and we were pretty chuffed to see this limited edition land in our outstreched palms. The Abraham Bowman offers notes of dark chocolate, cinder toffee and clove studded oranges.
£89.95
