Michter's US*1 Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Michter's US*1 Small Batch is batched in a tank that holds no more than twenty barrels — the house rule that leaves no room to blend out a weak one — and enters the barrel at 103 proof, the lowest in Kentucky, because low entry proof pulls more from the wood. Michter's traces its name to Shenk's, the 1753 Pennsylvania distillery; Joseph Magliocco revived the brand in Kentucky in the 1990s, built the Shively distillery in 2015 and the Fort Nelson showpiece downtown in 2019, and master distiller Dan McKee now runs the most expensive production process in bourbon — custom-toasted-then-charred barrels, eighteen-month air-dried wood, heat-cycled warehouses, and the low entry proof. The Small Batch is Kentucky straight bourbon from a corn-dominant mashbill, aged in Michter's fire-charred, toasted barrels, batched twenty barrels at a time, and bottled at 91.4 proof. Expect the house profile: a rich nose of caramel, vanilla, and stone fruit with a toasted-oak sweetness, a mellow, earthy, nuanced palate of butterscotch, dried cherry, and soft spice, and a long, gently warm finish. WhiskeyBon and Breaking Bourbon both call it one of the most polished entry bourbons in Kentucky. Honest note: the Michter's bottle you can actually find — the 10 Year and the Toasted are allocated; this is the same process at a price that makes it a house pour. Neat or in a Manhattan. Michter's, US*1.

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