Milam & Greene Whiskey are returning to The Castle Hill Vintage Bourbon Series for a final time with Batch Three 15-Year-Old Bourbon.
For Batch Three, Milam & Greene Master Blender, CEO and Co-Founder Heather Greene hand-selected just 20 barrels aged over 15 years. It is the oldest age statement ever released by Milam & Greene.
The Castle Hill Batch Three 15-Year-Old Bourbon was distilled in Tennessee with a mash bill of 84% corn, 8% rye, and 8% malted barley. The barrels for this blend were filled in Tennessee on July 18, 2007, then batched and bottled by Greene and her team in Texas on November 15. The Castle Hill Batch Three Bourbon was aged a total of 15 years, 6 months, and 10 days, with the majority of aging in Tennessee and the final five months on the northside of the Milam & Greene Rickhouse 2 in Blanco, Texas, in row 1 where it rested horizontally. The average yield per barrel was 17.5 gallons for an angel’s share loss of 67%. It was bottled as a cask strength at 114.5 proof.
“Creating our oldest, rarest, and final batch for the Castle Hill Vintage Series has been a passion project for me,” says Milam & Greene Whiskey Master Blender, CEO and Co-Founder Heather Greene. “I select whiskeys at a young age and nurture them for many years before deciding when to use them. In fact, we kept these barrels in a warehouse in Tennessee to mitigate the evaporation before bringing them into the hot Texas summer heat. Once we brought them down to Texas, they spent just a few months in our warehouse before deciding they had to be vatted and then released. They wouldn’t have survived one more year here.”
The Castle Hill Vintage Series celebrates the art and skill of blending old casks to create whiskey. Greene chose only the finest and rarest barrels from her library of well-aged casks for each batch. The series was named for the historic Texas Military Institute, known as “The Castle,” in Austin, Texas, home to Greene’s blending lab. Its elegance serves as an inspiration for Greene’s final blends. The Castle Hill Vintage Bourbon Series is part of Greene’s “Blender’s Reserve Collection” which also includes the Very Small Batch Bourbon Finished in French Oak Staves and the Unabridged Bourbon Volumes.
Milam & Greene Whiskey’s The Castle Hill Batch Three 15-Year-Old Bourbon is available for a suggested retail price of $199.99 at select retailers, on the Milam & Greene website, and at the distillery tasting room in Blanco, Texas.
