On December 30, 2021, this headline published "The Most Innovative American Whisky of 2021", giving insight into the endless innovations in the field of American whisky. This time, this article focuses on traditional Types of American whisky, listing 15 of america's best traditional whiskies to be available in 2021. Surprisingly, most of these wines have seen phenomenal price increases in the secondary market. Haha, invest in the collection of whiskey, the United States can not miss it!
Widow Jane'The Vaults 2021
AA: 49.5% ABV, issue price $225 (current market price $400)
The wines are part of the third edition of the New York-based brand's old-and-rare whiskey collection, a blend of 15-17 years of Bourbon and Widow Jane,000 years of bourbon and widow Jane, president and chief winemaker from the Conover Street rickhouse in Brooklyn's Red Hook District. Limited edition of more than 3000 bottles. Complex and rich, the wines exude notes of caramel, toasted coconut, cocoa powder, leather and vanilla, as well as toffee, popcorn, pecans, whole wheat biscuits and sweet tobacco; the aftertaste is long-lasting and dry, with notes of cloves, caramel and whole spices.
Designed to deliver strong flavours, the Vaults collection ends with Adirondack oaks air-dried for 42 months. These oak barrels are made using the traditional French method of coking and charred with a burnt degree of 3.5, which gives whisky a heavy toast, caramel, cream, smoke and spices. Like Widow Jane's other wines, The Vaults range is non-condensing filtered and diluted with pure limestone mineral water from New York's Rosendale Mines, 100 miles away, which helps add a unique taste and long finish.
- Wild Turkey 'Master's Keep One'
Abot: 50.5% ABV, issue price $175 (current market price $600)
The 2021 edition belongs to the sixth edition of the Master's Keep series, a 14-year-old bourbon selected by Eddie Russell, chief distiller of wild turkey, and an 8-10 year old bourbon carefully selected by his father, also master distiller Jimmy Russell, and mixed into oak barrels for secondary ripening. With aromas of roasted oak and charred oak, as well as attractive aromas of sweet honey and brown spices, the wine is accompanied by bold vanilla, cream candy and caramel, which eventually evolves into a fresh and long-lasting roasted oak aftertaste.
Four Roses' 2021 Limited Edition Small Batch
ALC: 57.1% ABV, issue price $150 (current market price $700)
The 2021 version is a blend of OBSV (O for four roses, B for 60% corn, 35% rye and 5% malt, S for pure bourbon, V for yeast strain oriented to delicate fruit), OBSQ (Q for yeast strain oriented with a rich fruit flavor), 14-year bourbon, OESK (E for 20% rye, 75% corn and 5% malt), 12-year bourbon and OESV's 16-year-old bourbon, The smell is as pleasant as the purring of a plump cat on your lap, with a faint plum, caramel flavor; it tastes like a sip of ginger tea, with some spices, more like black pepper spices.
—Michter's 10-Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon
AA: 47.2% ABV, issue price $130 (current market price $400)
Modix is known for its rye, but this 10-year-old single-barrel pure bourbon was named "Best American Whisky" by Food and Wine magazine, aged in a brand-new charred white oak barrel for 10 years, and the Modix Hot Cycle Warehouse brings this 10-year-old bourbon to perfect maturity, with the famous caramel, white chocolate and vanilla flavours.
Grand Teton Private Stock Straight Corn Whiskey
Alcohol: 50% ABV, currently market price $80
Grantton Winery, located in Idava, is a family-owned business founded in 2011 and located at an altitude of 6,500 feet. The first version of Grantton's Private Stock collection to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the winery, it uses 100% Idahua-produced corn as raw material, matured in 6 and a half years of Corter's Run Bourbon barrels for a total of 9 barrels, and diluted by pure mountain spring water, with aromas of oak, maple and cloves, with the smell of golden raisins. The creamy, medium-bodied aftertaste has hints of cinnamon and butter. All in all, it's a warm, full-bodied, rounded corn whisky.
Eagle Rare Antique Collection 2021
Alcohol: 50.5% ABV, issue price $99 (current market price $2000)
Buffalo Footprint's antique collection is the most coveted collection of American collectible whiskies: William Larue Weller, Thomas H. Handy Sazerac rye, 17 Years of the Eagle, 18 Years of Sazellac, 2021, George T. Stager 15 years of non-compliance and no release.
The share of "Angel Sharing" in the barrel of The Odd Eagle in 17 years reached a staggering 73%, which shows its rarity. The wine has aromas of spearmint and red cherry, as well as cedar, tobacco and more cherry flavours.
—Garrison Brothers Small Batch Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Alcohol: 47% ABV, market price $80
Founded in 2006, the Garrison Brothers Distillery was the first outside of Kentucky and Tennessee to receive a bourbon still license and is the oldest legal bourbon distillery in Texas. The wine uses 74% white corn, 15% winter wheat, and 11% two-sided malt as raw materials, and has been matured in oak barrels for 4 years, and the high temperature climate in Texas makes the barrels age quickly. The wine is dark amber and smells stronger, with a heavy earthy smell and no typical caramel and vanilla flavors. But toffee and vanilla are still the main flavors. The flavor is more of nutmeg and chocolate, which is richer and more earthy than the usual bourbon, and it's still as sweet as the imaginary bourbon, but with less "caramel apples" and more "winter spiced ciders.".
Old Fitzgerald Bottled-In-Bond 11 Year Old Fall 2021
Alcohol: 50% ABV, issue price $110 (current market price $570)
The Old Fitzgerald Bonded Bourbon whisky, released twice a year by Paradise Hill Winery (spring and fall), has become one of the most popular wines. The Fall 2021 version, distilled in spring 2010, is the eighth in the collection and the second to be 11 years old. 75% corn, 20% wheat, 5% beer barley as raw materials, with autumn cinnamon sticks, baked spices and roasted apple flavors.
Jack Daniel's 10 year old
Alc. by vol: 48.5% ABV, issue price $70 (current market price $400)
It was the first time Jack Daniel had released a vintage statement in more than a century. Chris Fletcher and assistant winemaker Lexie Phillips, in order to avoid Jack Daniel's 10-year "barrel", let the aged oak barrels sit on top of the warehouse for 7-8 years to slow down the interaction and distillation rate of the barrels, and then transfer to the bottom of the warehouse until the two winemakers believe that they have reached the best new state and give the bottle. The aromas of sweet cherries and wood spices linger in the nose and taste buds, blending flavours of roasted spices, brown sugar, candied oranges and melted cream candy, all blended in espresso and cedar.
—Sweetens Cove 2021 Tennessee Bourbon
ALC: 56.9% ABV, issue price $70 (current market price $225)
Crafted by Marianne Eaves, Kentucky's first master brewer since Prohibition, who worked at the Woodford Collection, Castle & Keys, it's a blend of 4-, 6- and 16-year-old bourbons. To sift through three different vintages of bourbon from different locations, Marianne Ives sampled more than 260 barrels of whisky. The wine has whole wheat biscuits, honey and brown sugar flavors.
- Distillery 291 Bad Guy
ABV: 57.8% ABV, currently market priced at $108
Originally produced in experimental batches at the Colorado-based winery, the Bad Eggs series is a four-grain whisky made in a ratio of corn, sprouted wheat, sprouted rye and beech smoked barley. Plus, during the maturation process, distillery founder Michael Myles likes to toss Aspen staves into oak barrels to add extra wood aromas to a bold, rich, complex whisky that tastes great but sweeter.
Parker's Heritage Collection 2021'11 Year Old Heavy Char' Wheat Whiskey
Alcohol: 61% ABV, issue price $140 (current market price $1500)
One of the most anticipated wines from Paradise Hill, part of the 15th edition of the Parker Heritage series, aims to explore a heavily burned oak barrel aged wine in 75 barrels with a burnt time of 1 minute and a half (level 5), while Paradise Hill's regular oak barrel burns for 40 seconds (level 3) and is then placed on the 6th floor of the warehouse for 11 years. In addition, the wine is also made of the raw ingredients of wheat whisky from Paradise Mountain, namely 51% wheat, 37% corn and 12% malt.
The wine balances sweet and spiced notes with notes of honey, cinnamon, flavored oak, barrel charcoal, baked spices and sweet gingerbread. The scent provides ample intensity, demonstrating its depth as well as its overall complexity. On the taste buds, warm honey complements a concentrated mixture of cinnamon and baked spices, and when the spices wrap the taste buds, the flavors of tobacco and charred oak are mixed together. Rich and mellow, it's the perfect combination of sweetness, spice, warmth and overall flavour, providing a "wow" factor that can't be overlooked. The resurgence of spices brought power, once again highlighting cinnamon and baked spices, but adding the potential nutmeg flavor. A slight nutty flavor also comes into play, with plenty of honey, barrel charred and roasted oak flavors lasting until the end. Again, it was an impressive display of flavor and just the right intensity to end an unforgettable sipping.
Kentucky Owl Wiseman Straight Bourbon
AbV: 45.4% ABV, currently market priced at $43
The first bourbon produced and distilled by Kentucky Owl in collaboration with Buddston Bourbon: Wiseman, a 4-year blend of Kentucky Owl wheat and high rye bourbon, and 51/2 years and 81/2 years of Bardson Bourbon, blended by blending guru John Rhea, a whisky legend who spent a long career at Four Roses Distillery and was inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame in 2016, Joined kentucky owls in June 2021.
--FEW 10th Anniversary Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Alcohol: 46.5% ABV, currently market priced at $55
Paul Hletko founded FEW Spirits in 2011 with "contempt and rejection of the status quo" and established his distillery in the Chicago suburb of Evanston. To celebrate the winery's 10th anniversary, Paul Helletko introduced this whisky, which uses four grains (corn, rye, barley, wheat) and is aged in American white oak barrels for 6 years and limited to 650 cases.
- Colonel Taylor C Warehouse Bourbon (E.H. Taylor, Jr. 'Warehouse C’ Bourbon）
Alcohol: 50% ABV, issue price $70 (current market price $3500)
A one-time offering by Buffalo Trail Distillery in honor of E.H. Taylor Jr., named after Warehouse C, which Taylor built back in 1885. This six-story masonry building survived 136 years of floods, blizzards, 100 degrees Fahrenheit weather and even tornadoes, making it the spiritual home of the Buffalo Footprint Distillery. The barrels used in the wine are aged in Warehouse C for 10 years, half of which are from the 2nd floor and the other half from the 5th floor. The wine embodies a wonderful combination of cherry pie and rum sauce with hints of oak, cherry cola, vanilla beans and roasted oak, and a long finish with hints of spearmint, coffee, raisin bread and fennel.
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