Heaven Hill has announced its latest release: a 14-year-old Kentucky Straight Malt Whiskey. In a Tuesday press release, the distillery revealed this 107-proof limited bottling in the 18th edition of its esteemed Parker’s Heritage Collection.
According to Heaven Hill, this ultra-premium expression was barreled in March 2009. The contents of those 128 malt whiskey barrels were then transferred to be finished in 56 heavy-toast, reconstructed Cognac barrels for about four months. The original malt whiskey barrels are from the fourth floor of the Bardstown distillery’s Rickhouse O and the sixth floor of Rickhouse Q, and the Cognac barrels were aged in Rickhouse H1 on the fifth floor. The mash bill for this edition is 65-percent malted barley and 35-percent corn. The distillery describes the non-chill filtered whiskey as rich and velvety with flavors of molasses, bittersweet chocolate, cloves, and nutmeg.
