
This bottle of Evan Williams Single Barrel was a birthday gift from my dad. He seems to have an eye for great bourbon. Heaven Hill’s Evan Williams Single Barrel is the only vintage-dated single barrel bourbon available. This review is of a 2004 vintage (barrel 1323), barreled on 1-21-04 and bottled on 10-13-14, making the bourbon 3 months shy of 11 years old. To my knowledge, most barrels in this line average about 10 years old. It comes in at a very sippable 86.6 proof. So how is it? (more…)