Louisville, Kentucky-based Michter’s Distillery is crossing the pond to bring a pair of limited edition 2024 Legacy Series bourbons – Bomberger’s Declaration and Shenk’s Homestead Sour Mash – to the UK market.
The Michter’s Legacy Series celebrates the distillery founder – Swiss Mennonite farmer John Shenk [who founded Shenk’s Distillery in Pennsylvania] – with the Homestead bourbon being made using a portion of the previously distilled whiskey mash.
The 2024 Michter’s Legacy Series Shenk’s Homestead Sour Mash contains rye whiskey aged in French oak sourced from the Vosges region with the oak air-dried and seasoned for 24 months before being bottled at 45.6% alcohol by volume [91.2 proof] and is said to offer notes of caramel and spice.
The 2024 Michter’s Legacy Series Shenk’s Homestead Sour Mash is being made available from selected retailers in the UK for $160 per bottle.
The 2024 Bomberger’s Declaration also celebrates the original Shenk’s Distillery, which underwent a name change to Bomberger’s Distillery in the 1800s [after the distillery’s second owner, Abraham Bomberger] before it became Michter’s in the mid-20th century.
The 2024 Michter’s Legacy Series Bomberger’s Declaration uses bourbon aged in chinquapin oak, which was air-dried and seasoned for three years before being toasted and charred then bottled at 54% alcohol by volume [108 proof] and is said to contain notes of malted rye.
The 2024 Michter’s Legacy Series Bomberger’s Declaration Bourbon is also being made available in the UK for $160 per bottle.
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