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Latest Bardstown Bourbon Release Gets A Long Sherry Cask Finish

Bardstown Bourbon Company has been making some waves in the American whiskey industry in recent times for their cask-finished releases, which tend to showcase a high degree of thought into cask types, such as the previously covered Armagnac cask offering, and how long to leave the resting bourbon in them. The latest of these has now just come to market, taking the form of a sherry cask finish variant.

The new Bardstown Bourbon Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished In Spanish Oloroso Sherry Casks, according to those behind it, was done in collaboration with fellow Louisville, Kentucky distillery Copper & Kings Brandy Company. It is, in fact, the fifth such project between the two of them and the latest in Bardstown’s so-called Collaborative Series.

Bardstown Bourbon Sherry Cask Finish
Bardstown Bourbon Sherry Cask Finish (image via Bardstown Bourbon Company)

In the case of this particular expression, what one has here is a sourced, 12-year-old Indiana bourbon (mash bill 60% corn, 36% rye, 4% malted barley) finished in Copper & Kings provided Spanish Oloroso Sherry barrels for 18 months. It is bottled at 100 proof and will cost around $125 per 750 ml bottle, being available only in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

Official tasting notes for this release from Bardstown, which some have described as a “Fig Newton bomb,” indicate “classic sherry notes of raisin and fig are balanced with bursts of candied orange and baking spice. a dry, complex palate of cedar and campfire leads to a balanced finish of ripe dates with subtle spice.”

The Bardstown Collaborative Series, for those unfamiliar with it, is a line of bourbons finished in brandy, beer, Mistelle and French oak wine barrels.

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