Blood Oath Very Limited Release Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Sauternes Barrel Pact # 7 2021 750 ml

Blood Oath Pact No. 7 is a one-time Kentucky straight bourbon blend that will never be made again — the whole premise of master blender John Rempe's Blood Oath series at Lux Row Distillers. For the 2021 pact, well-aged bourbons are married with a portion finished in Sauternes casks, the French dessert wine's barrels lending white grape, apricot, and honeyed roundness to a caramel-and-oak core. Every pact in the series is bottled at 98.6 proof — body temperature, a blender's wink — and sealed under a wax-dipped oath. Sweet, layered, and quietly extravagant, it suits after-dinner pours and bourbon drinkers with a Sauternes habit they haven't discovered yet. When this pact sells through, that's the end of it.

How to drink Blood Oath Pact No. 7

Pour it neat in a rocks glass and let the Sauternes influence show before adding anything — a single large cube can tame the sweetness on a warm night, but ice moving fast buries the apricot notes. This isn't one for cocktails; save the mixing for something less expensive, and keep this pact for dessert-course sipping or a fireside cap to the evening.

Bourbon98.6 proof · New charred oak, portion finished in Sauternes wine casks · Kentucky