Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye History

I started this chart about 12 years ago when two things happened:

1. I became obsessed with this whiskey because it was so damn good
2. I realized that there was enough information floating around straightbourbon.com to figure out what was in each year’s release.

I’ve done a few updates over the years, but it would always become somewhat outdated as the Van Winkles would throw us a curveball here and there.  So here we are in 2017 and this is the latest to the best of my knowledge.

One key thing to note is that since they changed the font for the 2013 “D” bottling we are able to identify every year by information on the bottle alone.  This is unlike the Pappy series where the older bottles that don’t have the digital date code.  Not sure why they kept changing the label on this one?  In any case, it makes an OCD guy like me happy.

With the new distillate coming soon this might actually be the final update for this chart?

This was actually the chart that kicked off my idea for the site.  Hope you enjoy!