Has anyone seen any dusty VXO Fitzgerald on an NYC list? I’m looking for a pour from ~1950-1962. Visiting this coming week. Thanks in advance.

New for this drop:

Basil Hayden Bourbon 10 Year - $69.99 LINK

Bardstown Bourbon Origin 6 Year - $46.99 LINK

Bardstown Bourbon Origin Bottled in Bond 6 Year - $54.99 LINK

Blantons - $79.99 LINK (1 per person per year)

Blue Spot Irish Whiskey Pot Still 7 Year Cask Strength - $169.99 LINK

Castle & Key Bourbon Batch 6 - $54.99 LINK

Castle & Key Bourbon Wheated Batch 1 - $59.99 LINK

Chichibu Ichiro's Malt The US Edition Single Malt 2022 - $349.99 LINK

Eagle Rare 750 mL - $49.99 LINK

E.H. Taylor Small Batch - $64.99 LINK

Elmer T. Lee Bourbon - $99.99 LINK

Four Roses Single Barrel Private Selection Bourbon OBSQ 120.6pf 11 Years 4 Months - $99.99 LINK

Four Roses Single Barrel Private Selection Bourbon OBSV 111.2pf 10 Years 7 Months - $99.99 LINK

Four Roses Single Barrel Private Selection Bourbon OESF 112.2pf 11 Years 3 Months - $99.99 LINK

Four Roses Single Barrel Private Selection Bourbon OESK 115.2pf 10 Years 5 Months - $99.99 LINK

Henry McKenna 10 Year Bourbon - $59.99 LINK

Johnnie Walker Blue Scotch Year of the Rabbit - $254.99 LINK

Kentucky Owl St. Patrick’s Day LTD Edition Bourbon - $99.99 LINK (SPECIAL PRICING, was $130)

Macallan Harmony Arabica 2022 - $219.99 LINK

Midleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Tree No. 3 - $349.99 LINK

Midleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Tree No. 4 - $349.99 LINK

Midleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Tree No. 5 - $349.99 LINK

Midleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Tree No. 6 - $349.99 LINK

Midleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Tree No. 7 - $349.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Coffey Grain - $74.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Coffey Malt - $89.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Days - $59.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky From the Barrel - $74.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Miyagikyu Single Malt - $104.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Miyagikyu Single Malt Aromatic Yeast - $299.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Yoichi Single Malt - $104.99 LINK

Nikka Japanese Whisky Yoichi Single Malt Aromatic Yeast - $299.99 LINK

Proof and Wood Curated Collection American Blended Whiskey Vertigo (2021) - $79.99 LINK (SPECIAL PRICING, was $130)

Rabbit Hole RaceKing Double Chocolate Malt - $399.99 LINK

Red Spot Pot Still Irish Whiskey 15 Year - $199.99 LINK Smoke Wagon Uncut the Younger 116.63 Proof - $44.99 LINK

Uncle Nearest Straight Rye 100 Proof - $59.99 LINK

Weller Bourbon 12 Year - $89.99 LINK

WhistlePig Boss Hog Siren's Song IX - $649.99 LINK

For those looking Larceny was $60 and ECBP $70

$79.99 before tax as opposed to MSRP of $69.99

Not sure if this has been confirmed.

Looks like they disclosed the age of 6 years and 6 months which is unusual.

Has anyone seen Midleton Very Rare 2022 show up at any shops in the tri-state area? I thought it would have been released in the US by now.

Angel’s Envy Rye Ice Cider Finish

Bardstown Bourbon Discovery #7

Caribou Crossing Single Barrel

Compass Box Experimental Single Grain

Compass Box Vellichor

Eagle Rare

EHT Small Batch

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof A122

Glendronach Single Cask 1992 29 year

High West High Country American Single Malt

Michter’s Barrel Strength Rye

Penelope Architect French Oak Staves

Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Batch 138a

Let me know what I missed in the comments.

Has anyone seen a bottle of Stagg Jr. for around 200?

Im wondering if there are any groups out there buying barrels together.

I’ll be visiting at the end of April and wanted to see where any locals recommend looking for a slightly overpriced Weller 12, Stagg Jr., Blanton’s or something along those lines for purchase.

Buffalo Trace "Child Llama" 8 Years 2 Months - $39.99

Sazerac "Cousin Llama" Rye 7 Years - $34.99

Eagle Rare "Teen Llama 1" 10 Years 9 Months - $54.99

Eagle Rare "Teen Llama 2" 10 Years 8 Months - $54.99

1792 Full Proof "Conspiracy Llama" 7 Years 9 Months - $54.99

Blanton's "Uncle Llama" 6 Years 8 Months - $149.99

Notes:

1792 Full Proof "Conspiracy Llama" 7 Years 9 Months - $54.99

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/1792-Bourbon-Full-Proof-Single-Barrel-Conspiracy-Llama-w77001591w

Nose is dark chocolate covered peanuts, and the flavors are vibrant, powerful, and sweet light caramel over ballpark peanut shells. There are only 18 bottles available, as this was a short barrel.

Blanton's "Uncle Llama" 6 Years 8 Months - $150 online, $100 at BLVD with any $20 purchase

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/Blanton-s-Bourbon-Single-Barrel-Store-Pick-Uncle-Llama-w3688796m6

This is one of the 5 barrels of Blanton's that came to NY this past year. The nose is savory, with kitchen spices over brown sugar. The taste has a delicate heat, fresh herbs, and a salted caramel finish.

Buffalo Trace "Child Llama" 8 Years 2 Months - $39.99

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/Buffalo-Trace-Bourbon-Single-Barrel-Child-Llama-w2767609y2

A soft and sweet nose of candy, the flavors are all toffee with a bit of citrus custard in the long finish. There are 192 bottles available.

Eagle Rare "Teen Llama 1" 10 Years 9 Months - $54.99

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/Eagle-Rare-Bourbon-Single-Barrel-Llama-Teen-1-w8953675jb

This bourbon has lots of dry cocoa power on the nose, a flash of heat on the palate the moves through the typical sweet caramel into an almost mesquite flavor. There are 108 bottles of this available.

Eagle Rare "Teen Llama 2" 10 Years 8 Months - $54.99

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/Eagle-Rare-Bourbon-Single-Barrel-Llama-Teen-2-w8470407gm

A lavender and floral nose, the palate is all sweet candy apple with a chocolate toffee finish. There are 144 bottles of this available.

Sazerac "Cousin Llama" Rye 7 Years - $34.99

https://www.bluestreakwine.com/spirits/Sazerac-Rye-Single-Barrel-Cousin-Llama-w22033221v

The new single barrel on the market. Some have been out there, but this is one of the first in New York. It is clearly rye, with classic fresh aromatics. The pop of flavor in front is sweet toast, apple, with the lingering flavors of a out-the-oven Jewish deli loaf. There are 203 bottles of this available.

Spend $20 at BLVD Wine Bar (right next door) starting on 3/19 and you can purchase a Blanton’s store pick for $100. I think this is overpriced a bit but if anyone really wants one, I’m sure it won’t be bad. Anything is better than the Astor pricing for this.

1792 Sweet Wheat

Balvenie 12 Year Sweet Toast American Oak

Bardstown Bourbon Collaboration Founders KBS Stout Finish

BenRiach Malting Seasons First Edition

Elijah Craig 18 Year

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C921

Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel

EH Taylor Small Batch

Glenlivet 21 Year Archive

Glenlivet XXV Year

IW Harper Cabernet Finish

Henry McKenna Single Barrel 10 Year

Michter’s Barrel Strength Rye

Old Ezra 7 Year Bourbon

Redemption 18 Year Rye Ancients

Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Batch 134a

Weller Antique 107

Weller Special Reserve

Let me know what I missed in the comments.

For the average person, March 3 is just another day on the calendar but, for hardcore distilled spirits fans it’s a day that’s kind of a big deal. You see March 3, 1897 is a day that will go down in distilled spirits history as a turning point for distillers and consumers for this is the day the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 was signed into law.

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Prior to the signing of the Bottled in Bond Act there were guidelines but no real laws to force distilleries and non-distilling producers (NDPs) to prove that what they said was in a bottle was actually in the bottle. Back in the frontier days, it wasn’t uncommon for whiskey to be delivered in a barrel to a local saloon, general store or pharmacy where the proprietor could bottle up the alcohol on their own for resale or consumers could fill up their own jug directly out of a barrel. What the consumer didn’t know was whether that whiskey had been adulterated between the time it left the distillery and the time it entered the bottle. Back in the day, it wasn’t uncommon for Bourbon to be stretched using prune juice, neutral grains spirits, tobacco spit, rattlesnake heads, sugar, turpentine, iodine, fuse oil or just plain old water.

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The Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 is a set of rules that require spirits like whiskey to be aged and bottled according to a set of legal regulations. The primary purpose of the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 is to guarantee that the product the consumer was buying was really whiskey, according to a standardized definition. The Act requires the spirit to be the product of one distillation season and one distiller at one distillery. It must be bottled and stored in bonded warehouses under the U.S. government supervision for no less than 4 years. The purpose of this measure is to allow bottling of spirits under such circumstances and supervision as will give assurance to all purchasers of the purity of the article purchased. Treasury agents are assigned to control access to the bonded warehouses at the distilleries. The law prohibits addition or subtraction of any substance or material or the application of any method or process to alter or change in any way the original condition or character of the product, except the reduction to proof with water. The law also requires that the packages that contain bottled in bond spirits be of definite content and that the alcoholic strength of the spirit must not be less than 50 percent by volume. The green stamp over the cork which is used gives the name of the distiller, the location of the distillery and the quantity of spirits in the bottle. The security which the consumer gets by this Act has caused a continually increased sale of spirits bottled in bond. The Bottled-in-Bond Act has made the United States government the guarantor of the whiskey's authenticity.

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Celebrate with a Bottled-In-Bond dram!

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Ardberg Fermutation

Baker’s 7 year SiB

Blanton’s

Boone County 6 year SiB

The usual BT, ER, EHT SmB, WSR

Hancock’s Presidential Reserve SiB

Henry McKenna 10 year SiB

JD SBBP

Kentucky Owl St. Patrick’s Day LE

Larceny BP C921

Old Carter Bourbon

RHF

Stagg Jr. Batch 17

Stellum Black Bourbon and Rye

Let me know what I missed in the comments.

I’m thinking about starting a monthly post detailing what is being released in the NYC area during each given month; let me know any thoughts you might have.

The February drop will consist of Stagg Jr., Hancock’s President’s Reserve, Four Roses LE, standard drop of EHT sb, ER, WSR, and let me down what I missed.

Any confirmed sightings?