Distilled By: Heaven Hill
Proof: 132.2
Year: 2022
Date Method: Label
Size(ML): 750
Description:
Having completed a run of whiskeys aged in ultra-charred barrels, Heaven Hill took a blender’s route with this edition. The core is a 13 year old bourbon that got the double new oak treatment, with four weeks spent in a second set of charred, new oak barrels. This was then married to a 15 year old bourbon, this latter whiskey having not received the double new oak maturation and constituting 1/3 of the total. The result was then bottled, as has been the case with Parker’s Heritage, at cask strength: 132.2 proof.
So, what Heaven Hill has given us this year is a thoroughly middle-aged bourbon, and one that leans pretty heavily on the vanilla flavor coming from new oak barrel aging, but without diving as deeply into it as most of the double new oak bourbons (such as Woodford Reserve Double Oaked and Michter’s Toasted Barrel).
