Old Fitzgerald 13 Year Bottled In Bond Whiskey - Spring 2019 Release

Hey guys, this episode is brought to you by Michael from South Carolina who sent me a sample

of Old Fitzgerald 13-year-old Bottle and Bond. So this is the spring 2013 release that typically comes in this lovely bottle right here

It goes for $130 MSRP if you can find it. So I wanted the opportunity to kind of try it before I buy it

So that's why I'm so glad I got my hands on a sample of it. This is a product I really don't know too much about other than, you know, what they tell me on the website

I know it is a 13-year-old bottled in bond weeded bourbon from Heaven Hill

But a lot of people buy these because they come in these really cool decanters that I do still really want one

But like I said, I want to make sure the whiskey inside is good enough to justify buying a bottle that expensive

So I poured a little bit of sample here in the glass. First of all, the color on it is really dark

I mean, that 13 years definitely shows up in the color. Probably is going to show up in other ways too but definitely in the color Now weeded bourbons usually from my experience the older weeded bourbons don usually show as much like depth of like the dark oaky flavors So I curious

to see if this kind of follows that trend. So let's go ahead and give it a nose. Oh yeah, that's

different on the nose. I thought this was going to be a lot more familiar to me because I have

drank a lot of weeded bourbons lately. I love Makers 46, Makers Cast Strength, as well as the

Woodford Reserve Wheat Whiskey. So I expected a little bit more commonalities on those to this

but this is a little bit different. It's not really fruit forward. Normally, like some of

those weeded whiskeys, you get a lot of fruit flavor. This one is kind of like bread forward

And I guess I can compare it to Larceny, which is another Heaven Hill weeded bourbon. It is very

baked goodsy on the nose. It's more of like a light fluffy dessert, like a Twinkie or something

I don't know. It reminds me of a Twinkie on the nose in a good way though. There is a lot

more of the oak on there than I expected there to be on the nose, because that's usually something I don't usually pick up on weeded bourbon. So let's see how that translates on the taste

Definitely light and I guess I should expect that because again this is a bottled in modern whiskey which means it bottled at 100 proof so it not quite the larceny barrel proof which I really

excited to try but this is pretty pretty similar to what that's going to be I imagine that's just

going to be amped up a ton and also obviously not as old but wow there's a lot going on for

something to only be 100 proof there's really a lot going on in the glass it's not so much

twinkie on the palate. It's more like a freshly baked loaf of bread, like something you could get

up at a bakery. Of course, it's not as spicy because it doesn't have that rye content in the

mash bill. It's got that wheat instead, so it's more of a mellow, smooth flavor. But that finish

for a 100 proof whiskey is really, really nice. I mean, it lingers almost like a barrel proof whiskey

So I guess that goes to say that like, you don't have to have that high proof of whiskey just to

have that long finish because this goes on and on and on. People don't really tend to drink

weeders unless it's like a Weller or a Pappy or something. I think it's kind of an underlooked

category from these other distilleries and I commend Heaven Hill for putting out a limited edition premium product like this with so much flavor and a sexy ass bottle This definitely gets a recommend from me I will definitely be keeping

an eye out for a bottle of it because I would love to add this and the others to my collection

They've had a 13 year, an 11 year old, a nine year old, and a 15 year old. I think I'm right. I could

be wrong. But I am excited to try all of these. And I once kind of slept on this. Like this was

an option at a lottery that I was able to enter and I put it pretty low down on my list. But next

year, this was going to be up there because this is a really exceptional whiskey and when you're

paying retail for it, it's a great value. So that's about it for this. Have you tried any of the old

Fitzgerald bottle and bonds? I'm curious if you tried this one or any of the other ones. Leave me

a comment below. Let me know your thoughts. Did you think it was worth it? What did you do with

the bottle? Did you turn it into an infinity bottle? Because that's totally what I would do. Thank you so much for watching and until next time, I'm here to help you drink good whiskey

And Old Fitzgerald Bottle and Bond, great whiskey. Cheers