Parker's Heritage Collection 24 Year Old Bottled in Bond Bourbon
The Parker's Heritage Collection from Heaven Hill is always highly anticipated, this is a 24 year old Kentucky Straight.
This is the 10th edition of the Parker's Heritage Collection and celebrates the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, which required strict regulations to be adhered to in the production of whiskey at the time. These included the necessity of stating the site of distillation and bottling, the dates, and a strength of 100 US proof.
Heaven Hill are the supplier of the most number of bottled-in-bond products today, and this is one of those. The whiskey contains a dumping of bourbon casked in 1990 at the old Heaven Hill distillery in Bardstown.
Heaven Hill was established by a group of private investors in 1935, following the repeal of Prohibition a few years earlier. Among the founders was distiller, Joseph L. Beam, and a member of the Shapira family. As the company grew, the Shapira's eventually acquired sole ownership of it, and their descendants still run it today. In a similar dynastic vein, Joe Beam remained master distiller despite the Shapira takeover, and members of his family have occupied the role ever since. This was produced at the Old Heavenhill Springs distillery, later renamed simply as Heaven Hill, which was located in Bardstown, Kentucky. It was sadly lost in a devastating fire in 1996, and bourbon made there has become increasingly sought after as the years pass. The company had no distillery for the next three years, but were permitted to rent stills at Jim Beam and Brown-Forman in order to maintain production. They eventually acquired the newly refurbished Bernheim distillery from Diageo in 1999, which has been their home ever since.
This collection is named after former Heaven Hill Master Distiller, Parker Beam. Parker's legacy with the distillery was the introduction of single barrel bottlings. This was released while he was still alive, and he hand-selected the barrel himself, believing it embodied the best in all of the attributes he looked for in a fine bourbon, including style, age, rickhouse location (their Deatsville warehouses) and proof. Parker Beam died in 2017.
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