Maker’s Mark The Whiskey Wash Single Barrel Bourbon

Maker’s Mark Private Selection, A Reviewer’s Perspective (The Whiskey Wash Barrel Pick)

750ML

Maker’s Mark Private Selection, A Reviewer’s Perspective (The Whiskey Wash Barrel Pick)

The Whiskey Wash, for over nine years now, has brought you the latest in whiskey news, reviews and lifestyle coverage. Our reviews team in particular has reviewed over 2,500 whiskeys to date. Knowing you can trust them in what makes up a good bottle, we’re pleased to have their palates involved in The Whiskey Washs first ever private barrel pick – Maker’s Mark Private Selection, A Reviewer’s Perspective.
In September of last year a small group of The Whiskey Wash reviewers gathered in a private room inside the luxurious Multnomah Whiskey Library in Portland, Oregon. There, led by a member of the Maker’s Mark Private Selection team, we began what became an hours’ long journey, later broken up into a second day, to come up with the barrel pick we are presenting here.

Over this time our reviewers swirled, tasted, debated, tasted again and repeated as we discussed what would be the right taste profile for this pick. We would come close to making a choice, only to have not enough hands raised on any one possible selection to make a final call. Thus the second day to review our finalists before making our final selection.

For Maker’s Mark Private Selection, A Reviewer’s Perspective, we chose the following:

2 staves of Baked American Pure
1 stave of Seared French Cuvee
3 staves of Maker’s Mark 46
2 staves of Roasted French Mendiant
2 staves of Toasted French Spice
These staves were used to age cask-strength, fully mature Maker’s Mark for an additional nine weeks in a barrel specially fitted with these 10 wood-finishing staves in Makers Marks limestone cellar in Loretto, Kentucky. It was then bottled at a hearty 109.1 proof, with only 246 bottles being made available.

“A balanced pour, this incorporates a near equal portion of all of the different wood treatments offered during the Private Select. There’s leading notes of maple syrup, baked pears, and yeast with a dash of white pepper and subtle allspice, vanilla, and butterscotch on the finish. It’s hard to imagine more thoughts and opinions going into a barrel pick. As difficult as selecting was, I’m glad that we selected a balanced whiskey that was one of the favorites of the team from the first blend.”
~ Suzanne Bayard
TWW Reviewer