Wilderness Trail Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Cask Strength The Bourbon Enthusiast (Barrel 17E19-5)) 5 year 750 ml
Kentucky
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Proof
5 yr
Age
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Char
$65.99
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Barrel Picks.
Single barrels our team selects in person — tasted against their rickmates, chosen for character, bottled uncut. Every pick comes with its barrel's full biography: where it slept, the weather it survived, and what it gave.
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Russells Reserve Private Barrel Selection Eddie's Pick 9 year 750 ML
Kentucky
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Proof
9 yr
Age
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Char
$72.99
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Black Button Distilling Single Barrel Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Port Casks Barrel #406 118.8 Proof 750 ml
New York, USA
118.8
Proof
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Age
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Char
$161.99
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Wilderness Trail Single Barrel Kentucky RYE Straight Cask Strength The Bourbon Enthusiast (Barrel 17D13-4) 4 year 750 ml
Kentucky
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Proof
4 yr
Age
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Char
$53.99
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Rare Character Single Barrel Series The Bourbon Enthusiast Cask Strength Straight Bourbon (Barrel RIO-223) Proof 115.80 5 year 750 ml
115.80
Proof
5 yr
Age
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Char
$80.99
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Pick 04 of 2026 · TBD
Castle & Key Bourbon
Frankfort, KY · Pick trip scheduled
How a pick happens
We go to the barrel. Not the other way around.
Tasted on the rick
We travel to the distillery and taste candidate barrels side by side, straight from the wood — usually six to ten in a sitting.
Chosen for character
We're not picking the safest barrel — we're picking the one that made the room go quiet. Bottled at dump proof, non-chill filtered.
Documented completely
Every pick ships with its barrel's biography: warehouse, floor, fill and dump dates, char, climate, yield. One barrel, one story, fully told.
Picks sell out. The list hears first.
Barrel picks average a few weeks from drop to gone. Join the list for first word — and first claim — on every new barrel.