Kentucky Owl Wiseman Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The Wiseman is Kentucky Owl's everyday bourbon — a 90.8-proof blend of four-year Bardstown Bourbon Company wheat and high-rye bourbons with five-and-a-half- and eight-and-a-half-year Kentucky stock, named for the owl on the label. Kentucky Owl was C.M. Dedman's 1879 Bardstown bourbon, wiped out when Prohibition agents seized 250,000 gallons in 1916 and revived by his great-great-grandson Dixon Dedman in 2014; Stoli bought it in 2017, and John Rhea — the retired Four Roses COO and Bourbon Hall of Famer — blends it. The Wiseman, launched in 2021, was the brand's answer to its own prices: a permanent release that marries four-year wheated and high-rye bourbons distilled at Bardstown Bourbon Company with older Kentucky-sourced barrels, bottled at 90.8 proof. Breaking Bourbon: caramel, grass, roasted peanut, gentle rye spice, and light curry on the nose; toffee, caramel, cereal grain, muted raspberry, and dry oak on the palate; and a finish of rye spice, leather, and light dryness — a very serviceable bourbon. Drinkhacker and Bourbon Obsessed both found more fruit in the 2022 batch. Honest note: this is the Kentucky Owl for the Old Fashioned and the price-conscious fan — the batches are the collectibles; this is the bottle you open on a Tuesday. On a cube or in a cocktail. The Wiseman, the everyday Owl.

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