1974 Old Rip Van Winkle Van Winkle Family Reserve 16 Year Old 101 Proof Bourbon 750ml Bottle

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Van Winkle Family Reserve 16 Year Old 101 Proof Bourbon 750ml

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The Van Winkle Family Reserve 16 and 17-year-old releases were purportedly bottled using whiskey from the Boone distillery which was also used for the first bottles of Pappy Van Winkle 20-year-old. Ranked one of the best bourbon whiskeys in the world, this 16yo Van Winkle Family Reserve was barrelled in 1974 and then bottled in 1990 and exclusively exported to the Japanese market. It’s one hell of a rare unicorn and the only bottle of its type currently for sale in Australia. An incredibly rare offering from the Van Winkle family reserve. This was bottled in 1990 by Julien Van Winkle III. His father, Julian II had retained an office at the old Stitzel-Weller distillery following his forced sale of it in the 1970's, but this hospitality was not extended to his son, who had to buy Hoffman distillery in 1983, re-naming it Old Commonwealth. There he bottled much of the best-regarded whiskey in America, including Nathan Stone's, Very Olde St. Nick, the A.H. Hirsch Reserve, and this, the Van Winkle Family Reserve. It is believed this Van Winkle family reserve bourbon was sourced from Boone distillery, where it was barreled in 1974. It was bottled twice, this one in 1990, and again at 17 years old in 1991. Both were intended for the Japanese market who were at the time more willing to pay premium prices for well-aged bourbon. Van Winkle III continued to bottle at Old Commonwealth until 2002, when thinning stocks necessitated an agreement with Buffalo Trace, who warehouse his remaining barrels, and produced limited quantities of 'Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve' on an annual basis to this day. These original bottles of Boone distilled Van Winkle reserves are incredibly rare and sought after in equal measure.…

Beverage type:

Whiskey

Alcohol Level:

50.5%

Bottle size:

750ml bottle Single

Product Origin:

Kentucky

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Vintage:

1974

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About the brand

Perhaps the most distinctive name in bourbon, Old Rip Van Winkle and its supremely popular 'Pappy' releases have become a culture-defining phenomenon. Passed down through generations of the Van Winkle family for well over 100 years, Old Rip Van Winkle (now distilled by Buffalo Trace) is renowned for its unique preference of wheat rather than rye in the mashbill, a process which has helped it earn cult status and a reputation for producing the smoothest and most complex bourbons in circulation. Released yearly in extremely limited quantities, Old Rip Van Winkle and its acclaimed Pappy Van Winkle line are celebrated by collectors and connoisseurs the world over, and rightly so, no top shelf is complete without one.

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Old Rip Van Winkle Van Winkle Family Reserve 16 Year Old 101 Proof Bourbon 1974 750ml bottle