Van Winkle Special Reserve 19 Year Old Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975 (1 BT 75cl)

Van Winkle Special Reserve 19 Year Old Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975

Distilled in Spring 1975, exclusively bottled for Corti Brothers Wine Merchants in Sacramento by Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery Lawrenceburg, Kentucky

Corti Brothers is a gourmet grocery store in Sacramento, California, that in the 1980s became one of the earliest buyers for Julian Van Winkle III’s bourbon, which he was buying from Stitzel-Weller and bottling at his Old Commonwealth distillery. The people at Corti Brothers were far ahead of the whiskey curve, and they ordered 19-year-old bourbon at a time when well-aged American whiskey was practically non-existent – bottles like this one constitute the first known private-barrel bourbon selection. It was Darrell Corti, who ran the business at the time, who first convinced Van Winkle to use a cognac-style bottle. Today bottles from Van Winkle that carry the Corti Brothers name rank among the rarest and most sought-after whiskeys in the world.

1 bt 75cl (nop)

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