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Bomberger's Declaration Kentucky Straight Bourbon 2019

Lot: 272838

Bomberger's Declaration Kentucky Straight Bourbon 2019

Winning Bid: £121

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Brown-Forman
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Kentucky, USA
Bottler: 
Official / Michter's Fort Nelson
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
108 US Proof / 54%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bomberger's Declaration Kentucky Straight Bourbon 2019

When the famous Michter's distillery was abandoned by its owners in 1989, they left everything from the equipment, near-millions of gallons of stock, and perhaps most importantly, the rights to the name. Michter's distillery developed a cult status in the subsequent years due to the release of the much-lauded A.H. Hirsch Reserve, distilled there in 1974 when it was still called Pennco.

The new owners of the Michter's name, Chatham Imports, started a new company called Michter's Distillery LLC, and operated as a Non-Distiller Producer (NDP) for a number of years, meaning they sourced their whisky from other distilleries and bottled it under their own name. Many of these releases have been incredibly sought after, with early batches of their single barrel bourbons rumoured to have been sourced from the legendary Stitzel-Weller.

In 2015 they constructed a new Michter's distillery in Shively, KY and have begun barrelling their own stock ever since. With the construction of a new warehousing facility in 2018, it is expected this new Michter's will soon be bottling all of its own whiskey, developing an important legacy of its own.

Bomberger is one of the many names the Michter's distillery in Schaefferstown, PA has been known as. At the time of closing it had the joint honour of being both the smallest commercial distillery and the oldest surviving distillery building of its kind in the US.

This is batch #19G1240, a 2019 release and is one of 3040 bottles.

Whiskey author Fred Minnick has confirmed in his book, Bourbon Curious, that the source of Michter's Kentucky labelled products are sourced from Brown-Forman.

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