Pinhook Vertical Series 5 Year Bourbon Whiskey

The Vertical Series is Pinhook's thirteen-year experiment — 1,350 MGP barrels selected in 2015 and released one year at a time from four years old to sixteen, each vintage bottled at whatever proof shows it best — and the 5 Year is the 2020 chapter at 104 proof. Sean Josephs, a sommelier who ran Char No. 4 and Maysville in New York, founded Pinhook in 2010 — a pinhooker buys young horses and sells them trained — and the Vertical Series is named Bourbon War after the racehorse; the same lot of Indiana-distilled straight bourbon sits in Kentucky and gets pulled from annually, so a full run is the only way to taste one whiskey growing up. The 5 Year is the second release, bottled at 104 proof. Breaking Bourbon: oak, big grain, vanilla, and toasted marshmallow on the nose; green pepper, rye spice, prominent oak, toasted brown sugar, and caramel with corn underneath on the palate; and a finish of oak, corn bake, dry leather, white peppercorn, and brown sugar — a fun series to explore what time does to bourbon. Honest note: the early vintages are young and grainy by design — that's the baseline — and a sealed 5 Year is the bottle collectors building the full vertical need most, because it's the one that's gone. Neat, beside the 7 or the 10. Bourbon War, five years.

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