Vanilla | Caramel | Raspberry cream | Cinnamon | Graham cracker | Light cocoa | Light tobacco | Toasted oak

Toffee | Vanilla | Honey | Stone fruit | Milk chocolate | Light brown sugar

Cinnamon graham cracker | Caramel | Cherry | Aged oak | Rye spice

The Penelope Estate Collection was introduced in October 2024, and its 2025 slate now includes four release categories: Founders Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon, the introduction of Omega Straight Bourbon finished in Omega French oak barrels, and 10 year old Single Barrel and Private Select bourbons.

Penelope Bourbon has done a great job highlighting Ross & Squibb Distillery’s distillate at a higher age with the Estate Collection releases. The distillery’s bourbons are well known to bourbon enthusiasts, thanks to their widespread accessibility in other non-distiller producer brands. The Estate Collection, though, is a much more curated selection of higher-aged barrels from the Indiana distillery. The result is a very enjoyable and accessible pour that, no matter what level your familiarity with the MGP portfolio is, you’ll find a lot to love here.

Following Penelope’s love of four-grain bourbon, this year’s Private Select is once again a four-grain bourbon, albeit one with very little wheat. The flavors remain light and accessible, leaning heavily on vanilla, caramel, honey, and graham cracker with red fruit and aged oak mixed in. It’s not overly complex but comes together well. Penelope Estate Collection: Private Select 10 Year Bourbon doesn’t try to be flashy or reinvent the company’s standard flavor profile. It’s instead happy highlighting what people have come to know as Penelope’s flavor profile. The result is a bourbon that is a delightful sip throughout.