Breaking Bourbon Award Winning Single Barrel Club picks are selected by Breaking Bourbon, and whenever possible with the help of Patreon supporters. The bottles are made available to Patreon supporters first by pledge tier. If any bottles remain after all supporters have had an opportunity to purchase, they are made available to the public on a first come, first served basis. Each barrel is sponsored by a retailer partner, who sells the bottles directly to end purchasers.

Retailer Partner: De Wine Spot

Name: Widow Jane 13 Year

Company: Widow Jane Distillery

Distillery: MGP

Age: 13 Years

Proof: 99

Mashbill: Undisclosed

Yield: 133 Bottles

Release Date: December 2020

Single Barrel Club Rollout Schedule

Simultaneous Rollout with SBC #37 Few Bourbon

$25 - Friday 12/18/2020 @ 2PM ET

$14 - Monday 12/21/2020 @ 2PM ET

$7 - Tuesday 12/22/2020 @ 2PM ET

$3, $2, $1 - Wednesday 12/23/2020 @ 2PM ET

Single Barrel Club pick #36 is a single barrel Widow Jane Bourbon in partnership with De Wine Spot out of Brooklyn, NY. It will be released simultaneously with SBC #37, FEW Bourbon.

Widow Jane Distillery is located in the center of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. While Widow Jane does distill in-house, this particular selection was from barrels sourced from MGP. With older MGP barrels seeing increasingly high demand and less availability, we jumped at the chance to select a barrel for the Single Barrel Club.

Of the barrels offered, the flavor range was relatively tight. Each barrel was really good, offering a classic bourbon flavor profile with the right balance of oak. For this pick, it meant sussing out the slight nuances between barrels.

Ultimately, we found one barrel to have a little more character, deeper vein of oak, and slightly more intensity of sweetness. While we generally tend to lean towards a higher proof, the lower but still robust 99 proofpoint actually works really well with this bourbon. Considering its higher age and oak influence, this results in a bourbon that favors elegance over a bombastic explosion of flavor. It’s a more classic aged bourbon experience, and one that should be savored.

For the sticker concept, we were reminded of a topic that came up quite a few years ago around the time when we first started Breaking Bourbon. The idea of a “Bourbon Widow,” which in this sense was the fact that there was a brief time the three of us were spending so much time on everything bourbon our wives sometimes felt as if we had disappeared. Late nights working on the site, travelling, bourbon hunting, and so on. A theme many out there can probably relate to if they’ve ever been bitten by the bourbon bug. Thankfully, we found the right balance. And of course, the concept could apply either way - to anyone in a relationship. But playing off the Widow Jane name the sticker only works one way, so we decided to have a little fun with it, blonde hair and all.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Aged oak | Musty oak | Leather | Caramel | Pleasant with a poignant display of age against a sweet caramel note

Palate: Seasoned oak | Caramel chews | Raisin | Graham cracker | Leather | Well-rounded with nice oak-sweet balance

Finish: Brown sugar | Ramp up of spice | Clove | Long & warming

A pleasant display of a classic tasting aged bourbon with nicely balanced aged oak and caramel notes.

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