Jefferson's Reserve Pritchard Hill Cabernet Cask Finish Bourbon Whiskey

Pritchard Hill is Jefferson's Reserve given an extra year in French oak that held Chappellet's Pritchard Hill Cabernet — the Napa cult wine from the hillside above Lake Hennessey — bottled at 90.2 proof. Trey Zoeller, whose family has made whiskey in Kentucky since the 1790s, founded Jefferson's in 1997, and the Chappellet collaboration is his wine-country experiment: Jefferson's Reserve, a very small batch of Kentucky straight bourbons, is finished for about a year in the French oak barriques Chappellet used for its flagship Cabernet, then bottled at 90.2 proof. Drinkhacker, B: acidic red fruit, dry tannin, black pepper, and new leather on the nose; overripe strawberry, then fresh-ground pepper, espresso bean, and dusty oak, turning lush and creamy into berry compote and caramel on the finish. The Whiskey Wash and ModernThirst both find the wine as structure and red fruit rather than sweetness — a drier finish than most wine-cask bourbons. Expect a savory, peppery bourbon with a Cabernet backbone — more tannin and espresso than cherry syrup. Honest note: wine-finished bourbon usually means sweet; this one means dry and structured, which makes it the bottle for the Napa drinker and the steak dinner, not the dessert pour. Neat, with a ribeye. Pritchard Hill, Chappellet.

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