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The Story Behind the Bottle

The Remus Repeal Reserve series began in 2015 when then-Master Distiller Greg Metze launched “Metze’s Select Medley” at MGP’s Lawrenceburg, Indiana distillery. After Metze’s departure in 2016, the series evolved into the annual Remus Repeal Reserve we know today—each release crafted to honor the repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933, and the...


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Still Austin has become one of the more interesting newer distilleries to watch out of Texas. Its private single-barrel program permits retailers and distributors to select individual barrels and bottle them at cask strength under their own branding. This particular bottle, called “The Unwanted,” was dumped on January 3, 2024 and bottled at 116 proof. I could not find a revie...


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Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old has been around for years, and while I have enjoyed it, I have always found its 90-proof presentation a little too restrained for bourbon carrying that much age. The new Elijah Craig 15-Year-Old Single Barrel, bottled at 108 proof, solves that problem nicely: it preserves the mature Heaven Hill profile while giving the whiskey enough proof, texture, a...


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