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Michter’s Bomberger’s Declaration 2025 Review

Bomberger's Declaration showcases Michter's experimental aging techniques with Chinquapin oak, delivering a fiery, complex bourbon with notes of pine tar, cherry, and dark roast coffee.

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9
$179
  • Jeff Bogursky, innovator turned wine seller, runs vintagekosher.com for rare bottles.
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Bomberger’s Declaration is core of Michter’s Legacy Series, honoring the original Bomberger’s Distillery from the 1800s and later Michter’s Distillery—reinforcing a tie to American and bourbon history

Additionally, these small-batch, high-quality releases allow Michter’s to work in the lab with proprietary techniques. It incorporates an aging program in Chinquapin (Quercus muehlenbergii) oak. French and American oak in slow aged casks.
Appearance:
Burnt butter
Nose:
Pine tar, cherry, Balkan Sobranie tobacco
Palate:
Pineapple, burgundy wine, charcoal, dark roast coffee on top of an old-time, fiery, cask strength, almost malty bourbon.
Finish:
The only sweet experience is in the finish, when a memory of pecan and butter on the grill, long and surrounded by a fiery out.
Comments:
I look forward each year to getting a taste of the new homage to Michter’s heritage. The Bomberger’s makes me want to find a time machine to take me back to that historic distillery. Add on top the fact that Michter’s uses the Legacy Series to experiment with aging and wood treatment techniques and you have a winning combination. Bomberger’s is not a polite bourbon. And, Michter’s keeps making it more interesting and more flavorful. My only request would be in future for them to release with what they consider a proper proof point, rather than leading me to guestimate.

Editor’s Note: This whiskey was either bought as a sample by The Whiskey Wash or provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies, this in no way influenced the outcome of this review.

Jeff Bogursky

Jeff Bogursky is a restless innovator and entrepreneur. He started one of New York’s first digital agencies and developed software applications for decades, before simpliying his life by becoming a wine and spirits seller. His website vintagekosher.com specializes in hard to find and good to drink bottles.

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