Evan Williams Single Barrel Oak 2014 750 ml

Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage 2014, a Kentucky straight bourbon from Heaven Hill, prints three facts on every label: the date the whiskey went into oak, the date it was bottled, and the number of the barrel it came from. The distillery's master distillers hand-select each barrel for the vintage series, which goes to bottle at 86.6 proof after roughly seven to eight years in new charred oak. The 2014 vintage runs true to the house style — dark caramel, sweet oak, and charred wood on the nose, a lush, lightly spicy palate of honey, apple, and orange, and a long, relaxed finish. Single-barrel bourbon rarely costs this little. Sip it neat to study one barrel's character, or make it the house old fashioned pour.

How to drink Evan Williams Single Barrel 2014

Sip it neat to study what this individual barrel is doing — that's the point of a single-barrel release. It also makes a genuinely excellent house Old Fashioned if you want to put it to work.

Bourbon86.6 proof · New charred oak · Kentucky