![]() Kentucky Peerless Distilling takes its time for a true grain-to-glass experience. $70-$80 - Peerless Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Kentucky Peerless Distilling Company Nose: Cinnamon, brown butter sugar, walnut, and raisins meld on the nose with some vanilla to create a moist oatmeal cookie next to buckwheat pancakes griddled in brown butter and topped with apple butter, and maybe some apricot jam with a dash of nutmeg, dark chocolate shavings, and creamy vanilla whipped cream. And the last 20% is from mash bill R18098, which is yellow corn, pale malted barley, naked malted oats, double roasted caramel malted barley, peated malted barley, cherrywood smoked malted barley, chocolate malt, and de-husked chocolate malt. The next 20% is mash bill B005: yellow corn, malted wheat, oak smoked malted wheat, and caramel malted wheat. Another 30% comes from mash bill B002, which has yellow corn, hardwood smoked malted barley (smoked with beech, mesquite, apple, or cherry), caramel malted barley, caramel malted, and honey malted barley. 30% comes from mash bill SB091, which is a mix of yellow corn, malted rye, caramel malted barley, and honey malted barley. ![]() ![]() ![]() The whiskey is a blend of four of their mash bills. The latest seasonal drop from Tennessee’s Chattanooga Whiskey is another great. $50-$60 - Chattanooga Whiskey Bottled In Bond Vintage Series Fall 2018 Straight Bourbon Whiskey Chattanooga Whiskey Once you’ve found something that sparks your interest, hit that price link and see if you can find it in your neck of the woods. So my recommendation remains the same - read through my tasting notes and find the bottles (and the price!) that speak to you. Moreover, this isn’t ranked since it’s by price point. While some of the higher-priced bottles will be harder to source, no bottle on this list is a full-on unicorn bottle. They cover a wide range but aren’t as niche as you might think. That’s just the way it is.Īs for the rest, these are the bottles that I vouch for as a professional in the industry. What does that all mean? Well, some of the prices for these bottles are higher than their MSRP simply because you’re rarely (or almost never) going to find them at those MSRP price points. Local availability can be tricky and the small number of bottles that make it to certain markets are often via the “secondary” or “after” -market at highly inflated prices. ![]() That means that MSRP prices (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) are not always a guarantee. Bourbon - like all booze that is collectible/traded/invested in - can be highly allocated (distributed in very small batches to very specific accounts). While that sounds pretty straightforward, there are some caveats here. To highlight that variety across price points, I’m offering up a long list of my favorite bourbons by price - ranging from $15 all the way up to $500. I suppose the overarching point is that bourbon is as diverse a category as wine or Scotch whisky, with just as much nuance and value spread across a wide price spectrum. But that’s not the whole story, the prices go sky high, as anyone who has dabbled in whiskey investing knows. The vast majority of them are under $100 and many quality, readily available bottles are under $50. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - there are a lot of bourbons out there, folks. ![]()
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