Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 90.4 Proof NV (1 Bottle 75cl)

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 90.4 Proof NV

Green glass, red wax, front label very slightly soiled, slight hairline crack around top of wax capsule

Corti Brothers is a gourmet grocery store in Sacramento, California, that in the 1980s became one of the earliest buyers for Julian Van Winkle III’s bourbon, which he was buying from Stitzel-Weller and bottling at his Old Commonwealth distillery. The people at Corti Brothers were far ahead of the whiskey curve, and they ordered 19-year-old bourbon at a time when well-aged American whiskey was practically non-existent – bottles like this one constitute the first known private-barrel bourbon selection. It was Darrell Corti, who ran the business at the time, who first convinced Van Winkle to use a cognac-style bottle. Today bottles from Van Winkle that carry the Corti Brothers name rank among the rarest and most sought-after whiskeys in the world.

1 bottle 75cl (no original packaging)

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