This very rare, limited edition bourbon takes generations of distilling know-how to produce. Only the most careful and expensive distilling method can be used to create a whiskey as special as this one. Each barrel ages for 23 years and is carefully selected from the heart of the warehouse. This whiskey should be enjoyed neat Old pappy van winkle 23 year. pappy van winkle  family reserve

Only around 84,000 bottles are released each year (less than 10,000 bottles for each State in the US). If you think that’s a lot, compare with 84 million bottles of Jim Beam ( pappy van winkle 23 year old , a million and a half bottles per State). The online superstore, Gear Control, writes in their magazine: “Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve is super rare and the vast majority of people will go their entire lives without sampling any.” In most States it is sold by ballot: consumers apply for tickets, the lucky winners are drawn and offered the chance to buy a bottle.

The eponymous Julian ‘Pappy’ van Winkle was a brilliant bourbon salesman in the 1890’s who eventually became the president of the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Kentucky. His son and grandson, Julian van Winkle Jr. and Julian van Winkle III, ran the distillery until the family sold it in 1972, pappy van winkle 23 year for sale craigslist  but kept the family name alive in the bourbon business by buying back old barrels from Stitzel-Weller and other distilleries and bottling the whiskey under the Old Rip Van Winkle label.