Woodford Reserve | 2020 “Winter Slumber” Holiday Special Edition

Whiskey: Woodford Reserve | 2020 “Winter Slumber” Holiday Special Edition

Ahead of the holiday season, Woodford Reserve has released its annual holiday bottle.

**Very Limited Quantities

Size: 1000mL

Proof: 90.4 (45.2% ABV)

Origin: United States

Distillery: Woodford Reserve

This year the bottle features festive artwork by UK-based architect Nick Hirst. Hirsts painting Winter Slumber depicts the contrast between the warm, wooden interior of the historic warehouse at Woodford Reserve, and the stone exterior of the building.

This snowy scene, recognizable to anyone who has visited Woodford Reserve during the past 24 years, celebrates the fact that whiskey ages year-around regardless of weather.

Specializing in historic buildings, Hirst has worked for 20 years in sites across the world, from North Africa to the Middle East and Russia. His work has previously exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in London.

The Winter Slumber painting is based on a few preliminary pencil sketches from his visit to the distillery in Versailles, Kentucky, later laid onto a watercolor paper, with the detail added with gouache and pen-work.

Woodford Reserve | 2020 “Winter Slumber” Holiday Special Edition Tasting Notes

Nose: Rich aromas of gingerbread, caramel and chocolate

Taste: Full-bodied with a nice mouthfeel, flavors of caramel, chocolate, cinnamon spice, and a mild smokiness balance with lightly toasted oak and tobacco. Perfect for this holiday season.

Finish: Sweet at first, lingering notes of burnt brown sugar and seasoned oak make for a nice aftertaste. Compliments all around.

Distillery Information

Nestled amid the rolling hills of bluegrass and thoroughbred farms sits our historic Woodford Reserve Distillery. One of Kentuckys oldest and smallest distilleries, the present day Woodford Reserve Distillery is built on history, sitting on Kentuckys oldest distilling site where Elijah Pepper began crafting whiskey in 1812. It was on these same hallowed grounds that years later Master Distiller James Christopher Crow perfected his whiskey-making methods, which today have become common practice, including the implementation of sour mash into fermentation. The Distillery is home to a 500-foot-long gravity-fed barrel run, our iconic copper pot stills, and 100-year-old cypress wood fermenters. We also boast one of the only heat cycled barrelhouses in the world, ensuring every drop seeps into the charred and toasted white oak, giving Woodford Reserve its color and signature flavor.