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Whiskey Labels Watch: Wild Turkey Brings Back Old Timers

I realized the other day it has been quite awhile since we did an edition of our new whiskey labels round up, based upon observations of federally approved bottle labels posted online by the TTB. We therefore present a new grouping of them to you below, with the caveat that just because a label is approved it doesn’t necessarily mean it will actually ever come to market, or that the information represented on here will be 100 percent accurate when the final whiskey hits shelves.

Blade and Bow 24 Year Old Single Barrel (Diageo)

Blade & Bow 24 Year

Not much is given in information from the approved label for this new bottling under the Blade and Bow bourbon line. All that is really know is that it is 24 years old, a single barrel expression from a “recently discovered single barrel distilled at Stitzel-Weller on November 22, 1991” and that it was bottled at 93.4 proof.

High West Light Whiskey Aged 14 Years (High West)

High West 14 Year Light Whiskey

This interesting “light whiskey,” so called because it “denotes a grain spirit distilled between 80-95% alcohol by volume,” was bottled at 92 proof. The nearly decade and a half old expression was pulled from 100 barrels High West found that were “produced from corn at Segrams Indiana between 1999 and 2001 and aged in 2nd fill barrels.”

Knob Creek 2001 Limited Edition (Jim Beam)

Knob Creek 2001

It looks like the folks at Jim Beam may have on their hands an older Knob Creek bourbon bottling. Distilled in 2001, this whiskey looks as if it is somewhere around 14 or 15 years of age, depending upon when it was bottled. It clocks in at 100 proof and will be a limited run of just 12,000 bottles.

Bond & Lillard (Wild Turkey)

Bond & Lillard

This bottling, and the next one below, herald from the folks over at Wild Turkey, who look as if they are resurrecting old whiskey brands. There’s little information on the label about the Bond & Lillard history, though in the antique whiskey world old bottles of it still pop up now and again from long neglected basements and such. The planned 2016 version of this clocks in 90 proof and comes in 375 ml bottles.

Old Ripy (Wild Turkey)

Old Ripy

Joining Bond & Lillard on Wild Turkey’s trip down whiskey nostalgia lane is Old Ripy. This bourbon label has a little more on the backstory, indicating the brand originally was distilled in Kentucky starting from 1868. It is tied to something called The Whiskey Barons Collection, indicating perhaps a line of upcoming bottlings with resurrected brands likely as the backbone. As for the 2016 Old Ripy, it is (1) limited edition, (2) 104 proof and (3) being presented in 375 ml bottles.

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