John E. Fitzgerald Very Special Reserve 20 year old, 45%, $300/375ml
When Heaven Hill purchased the Bernheim distillery (and the Old Fitzgerald bourbon brand) in 1999, the deal included stocks of wheated bourbon produced at the original home of Old Fitzgerald, the now legendary (and silent) Stitzel-Weller distillery. Most of those stocks were dumped and bottled as one of the Old Fitzgerald expressions in subsequent years. However, twelve barrels were transferred from Stitzel-Weller to one of the Heaven Hill warehouses in Bardstown, where they remained until two years ago.
This whiskey is 20 years old. Twenty years is a long...
