On a Quiet afternoon in Western Kentucky

An Idea Was Born

One barrel and its incredible journey was the answer.

We started with a high rye bourbon cask and sent it to Buckhorn Creek Winery. There it was filled with freshly produced apricot wine — dry, tannic, uncompromising. The spirit in the wood shaped the wine, the wine left everything it had in the wood.

Then we got the barrel back.

Naturally, we filled it with our high-corn bourbon, sweet and soft. After a month of waiting, that expression became Apricot Wine Finished Bourbon Batch 1.

It sold out to massive applause.

We knew the barrel still had something to say. So we filled it again.

 
 
 
 

The Bourbon

HIGH CORN in its second finishing

Our mash bill is simple by design. We distill 96% corn, 3% rye, 1% malted barley. It’s sweet, soft, and built to take on everything a barrel has left to give.

Finished at cask strength in a barrel that already had two lives behind it. What came out the other side is Batch 2 — apricot in the background, not the foreground. Fruit you find, not fruit that announces itself.

 
 
 

Experience It

Liquid Apricot Crumble CakE

 

  • Dried apricot and baking spice. Stone fruit that earns its place.

  • Semisweet and soft — apricot crumble pie with a cinnamon mid-palate that tells you the barrel has been here before. Slightly drier than Batch 1, somehow more robust in the glass.

  • Crumble cake and cinnamon. Long, warm, and worth sitting with.

 
 
 
 

Made In Kentucky For patriots

celebrating 250 years

the land of the free and the home of the brave

When our nation turns 250, you don't reach for the ordinary. You reach for something that took years to make — something that carries the patience, craft, and intention the moment deserves.

 
 
 
 

Batch 2

Apricot Wine Finished

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Apricot Wine Finished Bourbon, Batch 2 is available beginning June 19 — online, in our gift shop at the Rickhouse Retreat. When it's gone, this barrel is done.

750 ML | $89.99 | CASK STRENGTH

Orders Open In 00D : 00H : 00M : 00S

Includes 250th Anniversary Challenge Coin 

Only 30 reserved for online purchase.