Knob Creek Nicholas Barrel Reserve #3 Select Bourbon (120 Proof)

If you want to know how I get to pick out these Private Reserve single barrels, I’ll let you in on the process. The master distiller will select his favorite 20 or 30 barrels for all of us “one’s” to select from. Obviously the first “one” to select will get the best of the best. This has been our exact situation the past few times when I selected our Knob Creek single barrel of bourbon with Master Distiller Fred Noe.

Of course, given that it’s Knob and they’re consistently excellent all 20 that I tasted were outstanding.  But I don’t mess around during these kinds of tastings, and I’m pretty sure that I locked into the best of the bunch before anyone else even had a chance to taste it.

I found this one in Rickhouse 0 on floor 5.
She was born Jan 25th 2012.