Bardstown Bourbon Company Collaborative Series Silver Oak

Silver Oak has aged its Cabernet Sauvignon exclusively in American oak for more than fifty years — the rare Napa house that never switched to French barrels — and Bardstown Bourbon Company sent its whiskey into those casks for this 2024 Collaborative Series release. It's the most elaborate blend in the series to date: six different bourbons, each a different recipe, ranging from 9 to 15 years old, married and then aged 17 months in barrels that previously held Silver Oak Cab. Drinkhacker notes the Collaborative Series actually launched with a Cabernet finish in 2019, but those earlier releases were single-mashbill Tennessee bourbons; this is the kind of complex blending exercise Bardstown has built its reputation on. Expect a nose of dark cherry, blackberry, and plum from the wine cask over caramel, vanilla, and well-aged oak, opening into a rich, rounded palate where the Cabernet's red fruit and soft tannin meet the depth of the older bourbons — toffee, dark chocolate, cedar, baking spice — finishing long with a dry, wine-tinged elegance and lingering oak. Business Wire's announcement framed Silver Oak as a house that, like Bardstown, vows its best bottles are ahead. It follows partnerships with Foursquare rum, Amaro Nonino, Goose Island, and Amrut in a series Bourbon Fool notes collectors chase for profiles they may never see again. Two American oak traditions, Napa and Kentucky, in one glass. Neat, or with a bite of aged cheddar.

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