Earlier this 12 months, Wild Turkey launched a limited-edition bourbon in celebration of longtime grasp distiller Jimmy Russell’s seventieth 12 months on the job (which went on to land at No. 9 on our Prime 20 listing this 12 months). Now, Booker’s Bourbon can be paying tribute to the legendary grasp distiller with its remaining batch of 2024.
Booker’s “Jimmy’s Batch” blends bourbons saved in 4 completely different seven-story warehouses. The warehouse breakdown is as follows:
- 12% got here from the fifth flooring of warehouse Z
- 20% got here from the fifth flooring of warehouse 1
- 22% got here from the 4th flooring of warehouse Q
- 46% got here from the third flooring of warehouse 3
The bourbon is bottled at 62.9% ABV and is exactly 7 years, 9 months, and 19 days previous. As with all batches of Booker’s this one is out there on a restricted foundation, and it has a recommended retail worth of $100. It follows three different 2024 releases: “Springfield Batch,” (our No. 6 whisky of 2024), “The Beam Home Batch,” and “The Grasp Distillers Batch.”
Within the “Jimmy’s Batch” notes, Beam grasp distiller Fred Noe particulars the connection his father, Booker Noe, had with Jimmy—the pair weren’t simply rivals within the business however pricey buddies, and collectively they performed a important position in turning American (and international) notion of bourbon on its head within the Nineteen Eighties and ‘90s. Fred additionally reveals that Jimmy turned one thing of a surrogate father to him within the wake of Booker’s loss of life in 2004 and that he’s taught him an important many life classes within the years since. Two which have caught out probably the most are the significance of maintaining camaraderie within the whiskey business and treating others as he’d wish to be handled.
