Old Fitzgerald 9 Year Old Bottled-In-Bond / 50% / 0.75l

The official history of the Old Fitzgerald brand is that John Fitzgerald built a distillery in Kentucky around 1870 and sold his bourbon to private clubs and ocean lines.

About 10 years later, the brand was registered by SC Herbst, who sold it to Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle for $10,000 during Prohibition. Since 1999, it has been owned by Heaven Hill Distillers. A few years ago, we came across information that Fitzgerald Distillery never existed, and that John Fitzgerald was an excise agent with a “super nose” for whiskey. Since he had keys to the warehouses, he could “take” samples from the best barrels. Old Fitzgerald is distilled according to the formula: 75% corn, 20% wheat, 5% barley malt and bottled in small batches twice a year. The 9-year-old Bottled-in-Bond edition presented here was released in the spring of 2020.

Nose : vanilla, buttery croissant, raisins, baked apples, toffee, brown sugar, honey, coconut flakes, cinnamon, notes of hay and oak.

Palate : vanilla, milk fudge, honey toast, sugar-roasted nuts, mocha, raisins, cinnamon buns, a bit of cloves and burnt oak.

Finish: medium long, sweet and spicy, with notes of vanilla, raisins, cocoa, caramel, peanut butter, cinnamon, pepper and oak.