Hirsch The Cask Strength Bourbon Finished in Hine Cognac Casks

Hirsch The Cask Strength is seven-and-a-half-year bourbon finished eighteen months in thirty-year-old Hine XO Cognac casks and bottled at 127 proof — The Whiskey Jug calls it one of the best Cognac-finished bourbons made, if not the best. Hotaling & Co., the San Francisco house behind Old Potrero and Junipero, revived the Hirsch name in 2020 — the label once attached to the $8,000 A.H. Hirsch Reserve — and The Cask Strength is its serious bottle: straight bourbon aged seven and a half years in new charred oak, transferred into casks that held Hine XO Cognac for three decades through a collaboration with the Jarnac house, rested eighteen more months in a Kentucky rickhouse, and bottled uncut at 127 proof. The Whiskey Jug: oak, grapey Cognac, baking spice, copper, toasted bread, leather, cocoa, and vanilla on the nose; dried dark fruit, oak, complex baking spice, cocoa, grape sweetness, and vanilla taffy on the palate; and a long finish of baking spice, oak, leather, and Cognac sweetness — the rare finish where the bourbon and the Cognac are in balance. Honest note: Cognac-finished bourbon is usually a gimmick at 90 proof; this is seven-year barrel-proof whiskey in casks that held real XO for thirty years, and it drinks like it — for the Cognac drinker crossing over, the finish collector, and the Hirsch fan who remembers what the name meant. Neat, a drop of water, after dinner. Hirsch, cask strength, Hine.

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