Heaven’s Door Spirits, the American whiskey model from Bob Dylan, has launched Bootleg Quantity VI.
The most recent on this limited-release collection is a mix of 12-, 13- and 14-year-old wheated bourbons completed in Limousin cigar barrels. It’s introduced in a ceramic bottle that options one among Bob Dylan’s work from his Brazil Collection.
Alex Moore, lead blender for Heaven’s Door, experimented with greater than a dozen several types of barrels for the secondary end on Bootleg Quantity VI earlier than lastly selecting the cigar barrel. “A cigar barrel is given its title attributable to its tall, elongated cigar-like form. The form of this barrel gives extra whiskey to wood-to-surface contact which yields extra pronounced taste notes,” explains Moore. “Moreover, the Limousin oak is air dried over time versus kiln dried, which makes a giant distinction by way of the tannins and sugars which can be naturally resident within the oak.”
Secondary ending within the cigar barrels imparts notes of spice, dried fruit and toasted oak, the corporate says, serving to to counterbalance to the softer, barely sweeter notes of a wheated bourbon.
The Bootleg Quantity VI bottle options Bob Dylan’s portray, Favela Villa Candido, a part of his 2015 assortment, The Brazil Collection. The art work portrays Brazil’s favelas and their neighborhood spirit, the corporate says, pairing textured browns and ochres with tonal greens and blues to evoke the fashion of Cézanne — one among Dylan’s favourite Impressionists.
Heaven’s Door Bootleg Collection Quantity VI rolls out with fewer than 5,000 bottles. It’s obtainable now for a prompt retail value of $499.99 per 750-ml. bottle, via choose retailers and at purchase.heavensdoor.com.
