Kentucky Owl Confiscated Bourbon High Octane with underpinnings of cardamom
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
with underpinnings of cardamom
The nose is fresh verging on wild with delicate aromas of white flowers
The finish is impressive with honey
becoming AB certified with the 2009 vintage
where it is brought to proof with Rocky Mountain snowmelt
Kentucky Owl Confiscated Bourbon High Octane with underpinnings of cardamomFounded in 1879, Kentucky Owl was successfully chugging along until 1916, when all their stock of Bourbon was confiscated by the feds right before Prohibition took effect. Though the whiskey was supposedly removed to a warehouse for safekeeping by the government, all inventory lost in fire a few short years later. Some find this fire to be suspicious, and it is suspected that Al Capone made off with it and sold it in Chicago. The loss of inventory and