Evan Williams Vintage Single Barrel

The battle of sweet and spicy, where no one wins. Vanilla, cinnamon and oak are omnipresent. The combination of soft and dry with some smoke to it. Evan Williams was a true American pioneer and one of the first distillers in the USA who started exploiting corn. He was known as a jack-of-all-trades, a master in one – making corn into damn fine Bourbon. Sure the distillery (Heaven Hill) producing this Whiskey has nothing to do with the original distillery made by Evan, but the respect for the man and his trade made them carry his name, and they’re certainly proud of that. The Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage is bottled solely from one barrel, selected by Master Distillers Parker and Craig Beam. It is vintage dated, meaning each bottle is marked with the vintage date it was put into oak and the year it was bottled. Depending on which month the Whiskey was bottled in, it is either nine or 10-year-old. Evan Williams Single Barrel, the only vintage-dated, single-barrel whiskey from Heaven Hill, will now become a Kentucky-only label, the company has confirmed. Once current inventory sells through, this rye-recipe bourbon will be unavailable anywhere but the Bluegrass State. The move was prompted by the rapid growth of Evan Williams 1783, Evan Williams Bottled in Bond, and other products that draw from the same barrel inventory. That put pressure on Evan Williams Single Barrel, whose packaging—hand-bottled and wax-sealed—makes it significantly more expensive to bottle. Blanton's was the first single-barrel bourbon, followed by several other single-barrel offerings. Heaven Hill took the concept one step further with this “vintage” label, which made the series unique. It wasn't a limited release in the usual sense of a finite number of bottles. Each year, typically in January, Heaven Hill simply changed the year on the label and began to bottle a different batch.