BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 21 August, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series 2020 Limited Release
As anyone who has participated in it knows, the private barrel selection process at Maker’s Mark is quite different from the process at other distilleries. It involves tasting Maker’s that has been given a secondary aging with customized staves of different toasting levels (low and slow in a convection oven, infrared, and more) and different oak types (American or French).
For this year’s Wood Finishing Series Limited Release, Maker’s has built on the process by using customized staves not used in the private selection program. The resulting bourbon is a blend of whiskeys finished in barrels using three different staves. One stave was French oak cooked in a convection oven at medium heat with a short toast. A second used the same stave, but was aged a week longer. The third was finished with...
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