Old Forester 1897 Bottled in Bond James E. Pepper medium-charred French oak and ex-Bourbon

medium-charred French oak and ex-Bourbon casks

and then rediscovered and released

Here’s the thing: this isn’t your typical Rye

” That’s because the botanicals are harvested in the wild from the unspoiled mountains of northern Greece

The brand was sold to Davos Brands in 2016

Old Forester 1897 Bottled in Bond James E. Pepper medium-charred French oak and ex-BourbonIt is what it is big, bold, and federally guaranteed. Old Forester has about as much tradition as you can get in a Bourbon. It is a single brand of Bourbon that has been continuously available for 145 years most of that time from the same family of craftsmen at the same distillery. Interestingly, it was the first Bourbon to be available exclusively in sealed glass bottles. There was a lot of nefarious re bottling and dilution going on and this was a