No other bourbon today can stand 20 years of aging, but this bourbon does it with style. “Pappy” Van Winkle was a true character. This bourbon, like “Pappy,” is full of personality that makes it a very special whiskey, and some might argue, one of our best bourbons. It has been put in the class of a fine after-dinner cognac.
Pappy Van Winkle's 20 Year Family Reserve is a wheated Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey aged for two full decades and bottled at 90.4 proof (45.2% ABV). Produced at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, it carries the name of Julian P. "Pappy" Van Winkle Sr. and sits among the most sought-after allocated bourbons in the world. Twenty years in oak gives the whiskey a deep, polished character that the Van Winkle family compares to a fine after-dinner cognac, with the softness that comes from a wheat recipe rather than rye. This is a bottle to pour neat in a proper glass, share on a milestone occasion, or hold as the centerpiece of a serious bourbon collection. Main Street Liquor offers Pappy Van Winkle's 20 Year for collectors and gift buyers looking for one of bourbon's true benchmarks.
