Wild Turkey American Spirit 15 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Whiskey: Wild Turkey American Spirit 15 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Wild Turkey American Spirit 15 Year Old Bourbon is a 50% Bourbon Whiskey from Kentucky Whiskey. This 2007 vintage Wild Turkey American Spirit 15 Year Old Bourbon. is the only bottled in bond Wild Turkey expression to date.

Size: 750ML

Proof: 101 (50.5% ABV)

Origin: Kentucky USA

Distillery: Nichols Distilling Company

Produced in extremely limited quantities as a super-premium bourbon, the 100-proof, 15-yr-old American Spirit is special because its the only bottled-in-bond Wild Turkey expression to date. American Spirit is also the only 100-proof bourbon released under the Wild Turkey or Russells Reserve brand.

Wild Turkey American Spirit 15 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Tasting Notes

NOSE: Honey, maple, fruity vanilla, fragrant oak, caramel drizzle, orange peel, herbal/floral spice, nutmeg, and hints of cinnamon.

PALATE: Vanilla, nutmeg, caramel, butter toffee, oak char, leather, hints of clove, cinnamon & herbal notes.

FINISH: Long and smooth with serious depth that is laced with spice.

Distillery Information

In 1891, Thomas Ripy built the Old Hickory Distillery in Tyrone, Kentucky, near Lawrenceburg, on the former site of the Old Moore Distillery. After Prohibition, the Ripy family (Thomas had died in 1902) repaired the distillery and began to again produce bourbon. The Ripys sold the bourbon produced at this distillery to various wholesalers who bottled bourbon under their own brands. Austin Nichols was one of these wholesalers.

The “Wild Turkey” brand is said to have arisen after an Austin Nichols executive, Thomas McCarthy, took some warehouse samples on a wild turkey hunting trip in 1940. The bourbon proved so popular among his friends they denied asking him for “that wild turkey bourbon.” Austin Nichols began to bottle Wild Turkey in 1942.