Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey recently unveiled new packaging with whiskey 100-percent distilled, aged and bottled by Uncle Nearest, and the brand also showed off its 2022 slate of whiskeys, which use four different recipes.
In addition to its current portfolio of core and distillery exclusive whiskeys, this year Nearest Green Distillery will release Uncle Nearest Rye, Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Rye, and a new Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Whiskey.
“Since the inception of our brand, everything in our bottles was blended to perfection by our master blender, Victoria Eady Butler, but the whiskey was sourced,” said Fawn Weaver, Uncle Nearest founder and CEO, in a prepared statement. “Our own whiskey began fully maturing last year, and what we have in our bottles now is what we believe is the best whiskey we’ve ever released.”
Among the biggest change to the new packaging is the replacement of the sketch of the property where Nearest originally distilled, now to the insignia of Nearest Green Distillery, which showcases a dram of whiskey encased by a horseshoe, signifying its iron Tennessee roots.
Victoria Eady Butler, fifth-generation Nearest Green descendant, who has been named Master Blender of the Year by Whisky Magazine, VinePair, and The Spirits Business, has also added a note and her signature to the front of every newly-released bottle.
“Our first-generation Uncle Nearest bottles shared the history of my great-great-grandfather and his significance to the Tennessee whiskey coming out of the hills and hollows around Lynchburg,” Butler said. “Our new generation of bottles reflect the future of our brand and our Shelbyville distillery being what cements his legacy for my family and every future generation of whiskey lovers.”
The company recently revealed on social media their plans to turn all their original bottles into collector’s items, encouraging buyers to “clear the shelves” of the “prelude” Uncle Nearest bottles and make way for the new editions.
“The packaging we used since our inception is no more as of 2022,” said Katharine Jerkens, chief business officer. “Now we are restocking with the bottles that will permanently cement the legacy of Nearest Green, the world’s first known African American master distiller.”
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The seven bottles in their 2022 whiskey slate will first be released at the 323-acre Nearest Green Distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee, with 1884 Small Batch Whiskey debuting recently and cases beginning to ship into markets across the country in January.
For more information or to book a tour, check out unclenearest.com/distillery.
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