Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975 (1 Bottle 75cl)

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975

Green glass, black wax, distilled in Fall 1975, exclusively bottled for Corti Brothers Wine Merchants in Sacramento by Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery Lawrenceburg KY

Please note that the distillation date label has been amended to read 'Fall 1975'. It has been confirmed by Darrell Corti that there were two 1975 vintage 19 Year Old bottlings; Spring and Fall. At some point the labels got mixed up and some bottles were incorrectly labelled Spring. The amendment has been made to rectify this.

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 t.mes 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 t.mes , 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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