{"product_id":"makers-mark-private-selection-kentucky-bourbon-festival-2025-exclusive-randys-57-single-barrel-kentucky-straight-bourbon-whiskey-2025-75cl","title":"Maker's Mark Private Selection Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2025 Exclusive Randy's 57 Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2025) 75cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMaker's Mark Private Selection Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2025 Exclusive Randy's 57 Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2025) 75cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 252 bottles produced from a hybrid Maker's Mark Private cask bottled exclusively for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stave Profile: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 - Baked American Pure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 - Maker's Mark 46\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 - Roasted French Mendiant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 - Toasted French Spice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAge of Maker's Mark Private Selection:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e5.75 to 7 years old, plus additional finishing of 9 weeks in cold conditions in barrels with chosen combination of staves.  It is Cask Strength (108–114)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMashbill:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Composition: 70% corn, 16% wheat, 14% barley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Selection Process:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBeginning as fully matured Maker's Mark® at cask strength, Private Selection is created by adding 10 custom wood finishing staves to each barrel. Then it's aged in their limestone cellar to extract a unique, flavorful taste profile. Participants in this special barrel program get to select their choice of these wooden staves. The finishing staves can be any combination of five flavor profiles chosen especially for this program. With 1,001 possible stave combinations, each expression of Private Selection has a customized finish and taste profile that is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Five Stave Profiles of MM Private Selection:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThere are 5 staves. Virgin American oak and French oak are the woods of choice for Private Selection finishing staves. \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNOTE:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Mo (Roasted French Mocha) stave has been replaced by the Mn (Roasted French Mendiant) stave as of Feb 2021.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1) \u003cstrong\u003eBaked American Pure 2 (BP):  \u003c\/strong\u003eBaked American Pure is American oak that's slowly toasted. BP, or Baked American Pure, is made from American oak and is the first stave sampled in the program. It adds notes of brown sugar, vanilla, caramel and spice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2) \u003cstrong\u003eSeared French Cuvée (Cu):  \u003c\/strong\u003eNext in order is Cu, also known as Seared French Cuvée. Cu is made from French oak that's ridge-cut and seared with infrared heat. It imparts toasty notes of oak and caramel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMakers 46 Stave (46):  \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Maker's Mark 46 stave is the one that started this whole experiment. It's made from seared French oak and delivers dried fruit, vanilla and spice. A barrel fitted with 10 of these staves would give you a cask-strength version of Maker's Mark 46.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4a) \u003cstrong\u003eRoasted French Mocha (Mo)(discontinued Feb 2021):  \u003c\/strong\u003eRoasted French Mocha is French oak cooked on high in a convection oven. It adds pleasant traces of coffee, maple and cacao. NOTE: The Mocha stave is archived as of February 2021 and not avaiable for new recipes. Any existing participants of the Maker’s Mark Private Selection who have previously used Mocha in their recipe will be able to recreate that recipe, however any new recipes will not have access to this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4b) \u003cstrong\u003eRoasted French Mendiant (Mn) (began Feb 2021):  \u003c\/strong\u003eRoasted French Mendiant is French oak cooked on low in a convection oven. It adds pleasant traces of milk chocolate, nuts, and dried dark fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToasted French Spice (Sp): \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eToasted French Spice is a French oak stave, toasted at first high heat then at low temperatures in a convection oven. This stave has a flavor profile of smoke, coumarin and spice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Maker's Mark \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaylor William \"Bill\" Samuels Snr started out in the whiskey industry at his family's T.W. Samuels distillery in the 1930s. When his father, Lesley Samuels, died in 1936, Bill inherited the running of the place, which he did so until 1942 when he sold it and its brands to Country Distillers Products. Bill has initially intended to retire to his farm, but the allure of creating a new bourbon proved too much, and he set about canvassing help in producing the recipe for the smoothers tasting whiskey that he has campaigned for and failed to get the family to distil over a decade prior. Among those who he reached out to were Hap Motlow of Jack Daniel's, Ed Shapira of Heaven Hill, and the legendary Julian 'Pappy' Van Winkle I. Pappy's wheated Old Weller and Old Fitzgerald bourbon were exactly the profile that Samuels was after, and with Van Winkle's help, he debuted finessed his own wheat mashbill, and bought land in Loretto, Kentucky in 1953. He filled his first barrels the following year, and in the years that preceded his first bottlings, Bill's wife Margie created the Maker's Mark brand based on her collections of fine English pewter stamps. 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