Bernheim Distillery (Stitzel-Weller era stock)

Rhetoric 25 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Orphan Barrel

Quarter-century bourbon is a tightrope, and Rhetoric 25 walks it with poise. The wood is assertive but never tyrannical, and the underlying grain character is still audible beneath the oak. A study in what extended contact can achieve when the base spirit has enough constitution to endure it.