This bottling of a Legent Kentucky Straight Bourbon is the result of a collaboration between Fred Noe (Jim Beam) and Shinji Fukuyo (Suntory), a bourbon with Japanese influences, so to speak. The whisky was partly finished in ex-wine and ex-sherry casks.
Whiskey production in the United States is dominated by about a dozen large distilleries, so that almost all whiskey sold comes from a single distillery, and blended whiskey is almost non-existent as a mixture of the whiskey of several distilleries.
The terms single barrel for whiskey from a single cask and small batch for whiskey from a relatively small number of casks have become established as distinguishing features.
This bottling of a Legent Kentucky Straight Bourbon is the result of a collaboration between Fred Noe (Jim Beam) and Shinji Fukuyo (Suntory), a bourbon with Japanese influences, so to speak. The whisky was partly finished in ex-wine and ex-sherry casks.
Whiskey production in the United States is dominated by about a dozen large distilleries, so that almost all whiskey sold comes from a single distillery, and blended whiskey is almost non-existent as a mixture of the whiskey of several distilleries.
The terms single barrel for whiskey from a single cask and small batch for whiskey from a relatively small number of casks have become established as distinguishing features.
