Neat Notes

Distilled in Spring 1974. Bottled in Winter 1990 from a 400 barrel batch commissioned by Adolph H. Hirsch and distilled under contract at Michter’s distillery (then Pennco), in Pennsylvania. Hirsch, a former Schenley executive who had dealings with Michter’s during his time there, is believed to have commissioned the whiskey as financial favor to the distillery, and actually had little plans for its use.

Bottling was entrusted to Julian Van Winkle III at his Old Commonwealth site in Lawrenceburg. This is one of Van Winkle’s first Lawrenceburg bottlings and one of two bottlings of the A.H. Hirsch Reserve as 15 year old (although the second was actually 16 by the time it was bottled).

Mash bill contains 75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% malted barley.