Maker's Mark The Lost Recipe Series Edition 1 Limited Edition Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 70cl

Maker's Mark The Lost Recipe Series Edition 1 Limited Edition Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2024) 70cl

For more than 50 years, Maker’s Mark was defined by a single product – the classic red wax top everyone knows. That 90 proof expression could be found in bars from Tallahassee to Macau and represented everything that founder Bill Samuels Sr. believed bourbon should be. It wasn’t until 2010 that the new first Maker’s expression was released – Maker’s 46. Since then, under the stewardship of third generation family distiller Rob Samuels, Maker’s Mark has become one of the more experimental blue chip brands in Kentucky. Offering everything from extra aged, to cask strength, to the unique finishing staves that define their Private Selection line, Maker’s has been able to bend flavours to their will. But not every style of Maker’s has continued on. 

Enter the Lost Recipe Series. This newly released line will explore some of the previous flavor profiles from Maker’s recent past. For the first recipe in this new limited release, Maker’s has tackled a crowd favorite: their famous Mocha profile. This is made by using a collection of their finishing staves like Baked American, Seared French Cuvee, and Roasted French Mocha. Bottled at 111.9 proof

Makers Mark Private Select Stave Profile: 1-Baked American Pure 2, 3-Seared French Cuvée, and 6-Roasted French Mocha.

About Maker's Mark 

Taylor William "Bill" Samuels Snr started out in the whiskey industry at his family's T.W. Samuels distillery in the 1930s. When his father, Lesley Samuels, died in 1936, Bill inherited the running of the place, which he did so until 1942 when he sold it and its brands to Country Distillers Products. Bill has initially intended to retire to his farm, but the allure of creating a new bourbon proved too much, and he set about canvassing help in producing the recipe for the smoothers tasting whiskey that he has campaigned for and failed to get the family to distil over a decade prior. Among those who he reached out to were Hap Motlow of Jack Daniel's, Ed Shapira of Heaven Hill, and the legendary Julian 'Pappy' Van Winkle I. Pappy's wheated Old Weller and Old Fitzgerald bourbon were exactly the profile that Samuels was after, and with Van Winkle's help, he debuted finessed his own wheat mashbill, and bought land in Loretto, Kentucky in 1953. He filled his first barrels the following year, and in the years that preceded his first bottlings, Bill's wife Margie created the Maker's Mark brand based on her collections of fine English pewter stamps. The first bottle of Maker's Mark was bottled on 8th May 1958, and was hand-dipped with red wax, as all bottles still are to this day.

55.95% ABV

70cl