Wine Enthusiast Magazine

SPIRITS

The Bourbon boom clearly continues apace. Just a few years ago, distillers worried that rising demand for the category would deplete stocks of America’s native corn-based whiskey and hustled to set new reserves aside to age. Today, we’re reaping the benefit of that foresight.

This month’s crop includes a number of bottled-in-bond Bourbons, including offerings from Old Fitzgerald and Huber’s Single Barrel.

For those not familiar with the term, bottled-in-bond is a government designation reaching as far back as the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, which was enacted to ensure the quality of whiskey during

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