{"product_id":"rare-perfection-17-year-old-bourbon-single-barrel-19-hi-proof-store-pick-750ml","title":"Rare Perfection Vintage Hermitage Collection 17 Year Straight Whiskey Hi Proof Pick #19 135.8 Proof  750ml","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare Perfection Vintage Hermitage Collection 17 Year Straight Whiskey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHI PROOF Pick #19 · 135.8 Proof · 750ml\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Kentucky’s Most Legendary Barrel Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Barrel That Was Never Supposed to Exist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis one was left alone for seventeen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHI PROOF Pick #19\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOne barrel. One moment in American whiskey history. When it’s gone, it’s gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAge: 17 Years (Distilled 2008)\u003cbr\u003eType: Straight Whiskey\u003cbr\u003eSingle Barrel, Cask Strength\u003cbr\u003eProof: 135.8\u003cbr\u003eSize: 750ml\u003cbr\u003eSelection: HI PROOF Pick #19\u003cbr\u003eBottler: Preservation Distillery, Bardstown, KY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Perfection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68275120144685,"sku":"810229150116","price":389.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/0272\/3373\/files\/IMG_1800.jpg?v=1794367009","url":"https:\/\/www.hiproof.com\/products\/rare-perfection-17-year-old-bourbon-single-barrel-19-hi-proof-store-pick-750ml","provider":"Hi Proof","version":"1.0","type":"link"}