Rare Perfection Vintage Hermitage Collection 17 Year Straight Whiskey Hi Proof Pick #19 135.8 Proof 750ml

Rare Perfection Vintage Hermitage Collection 17 Year Straight Whiskey
HI PROOF Pick #19 · 135.8 Proof · 750ml

From Kentucky’s Most Legendary Barrel Collection

Long before the bourbon boom, Preservation Distillery was quietly buying exceptional barrels from Kentucky’s most respected distilleries. Decades later, it holds one of the most remarkable private collections of rare barrels in the state. The Vintage Hermitage Collection is where the oldest and rarest of them finally see the light.

A Barrel That Was Never Supposed to Exist

This one was distilled in 2008 from an experimental mashbill, made to test an idea, not to fill bottles. Back then, only a handful of Kentucky distillers had the scale, the stocks, and the curiosity to run trials like this. Most of those experimental barrels were sampled, studied, and dumped long ago.

This one was left alone for seventeen years.

It carries a straight whiskey label, not bourbon. That is a quiet hint that it was never meant to follow the usual rules. Who distilled it? Preservation isn’t saying. The clues are in the glass.

HI PROOF Pick #19

This is exactly the kind of barrel we live for: old, rare, uncut, and impossible to replicate. At 135.8 proof, it is one of the highest-proof bottlings ever released by Preservation Distillery. That is a staggering strength for a whiskey that has spent seventeen years in oak.

One barrel. One moment in American whiskey history. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

Details
Age: 17 Years (Distilled 2008)
Type: Straight Whiskey
Single Barrel, Cask Strength
Proof: 135.8
Size: 750ml
Selection: HI PROOF Pick #19
Bottler: Preservation Distillery, Bardstown, KY