Very Olde St Nick Lot 8 Ancient Cask Curia Bourbon

Established in 1986 the Very Olde St Nick brand is owned by InterBev, a subsidiary of Allied Lomar in California, who's other products include Rare Perfection and Wattie Boone. Its president, Marci Palatella has been sourcing barrels and bottling them for several decades. She was Julian Van Winkle III's agent in the Japanese market in the 1980 and 1990s, and devised the Very Olde St Nick brand to capitalise on the Japanese demand for well-aged bourbon. In 2018, Marci Palatella opened the Preservation Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky. A small craft-distillery operating a pot still, its produces only a few barrels each day. If you’re bourbon and whiskey obsessed, you likely already know Very Olde St. Nick (VOSN). It has been produced for decades, always in extremely small batches and using an eclectic assortment of hand designed labels and odd bottle lots, VOSN is known for rare bourbon and whiskies of exceptional quality, big rich flavor profiles, with each miniscule lot being a memorable enigma. This bottling of Very Olde St Nick was produced from this new distillery although the liquids provenance is hard to pin down due to the "age statement" of 8 on the bottle. That would predate the distillery.