that specialize in dusties from all over the world.Īll told, anyone really looking to get into these bygone bourbons will find them fairly accessible in 2023. And then there are online retailers like The Whisky Exchange in the U.K. Jack Rose Dining Saloon in DC or The Ballard Cut in Seattle both come to mind. There are whiskey bars across the country that also specialize in dusty pours. And places like Justins’ - in both Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky - are still pouring them. Luckily, we’re in an era where a fair few of these vintage bourbon bottles are still kicking around. Sometimes seemingly random labels of bourbon would be “Aged 15 Years” and that would be the minimum age of the barrels used in the batch. That means that a lot of very standard whiskey from that era was, well, pretty amazing.Īt the same time, because the warehouses were brimming with long-aged bourbons, you also saw a lot of high-age statement labeled bourbons that you don’t really see anymore. Vodka’s boom in the 1970s meant that by the mid-1980s and well into the 1990s, bourbon producers were basically forced to put very old whiskey into average-ish bottles because they literally couldn’t give the stuff away. ![]() Back then, the American whiskey industry was truly on the ropes. The sort that I never could have pulled off had I not been invited to Justins’ House of Bourbon in Louisville, Kentucky, for a 10-pour double-blind sampling of whiskeys bottled mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. See where we’re headed here? It’s time for a big, blind vintage bourbon tasting. ![]() Opening up a bottle from the 1980s has something to teach us about that era, while also adding context to the bourbons being distilled today. As long as people are opening old bottles, the sealed ones will go up in value (in general).Īnother part of it - and the part I care about most - is actually drinking the stuff when the moment is right. Part of the attraction to vintage bourbons is for investment, of course. Bottles from bygone eras offer a glimpse into the days of yore in American whiskey, often with incredible whiskey hiding in cobwebbed cellars. Vintage bourbon - or “dusties” - are a huge part of the whiskey culture.
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