Elijah Craig, Compass Wines Select Single Barrel 2023, Barrel Proof

When picking our cask of Elijah Craig this year, we were again offered multiple cask samples, from roughly the same age statement, but from multiple aging locations. One sample really stood out. Ironically, just like last year, this 8 year old Kentucky bourbon also came from Heaven Hill's most desired aging facility, Deatsville warehouse CC, also from one of the upper floors just like last year. What we have here is no basic single barrel, but rather a single barrel, from one of the upper floors of the best aging location Heaven Hill owns, bottled at full cask strength. The pedigree just doesn't get any better than this.