119.7 Proof, 750 ml

“Double Gold” and “Best Canadian Whisky” 2020 San Francisco Spirits Competition

Rare Perfection is a boutique bourbon brand owned by Allied Lomarin California, who’s other products include Very Olde St. Nick, Wattie Boone and the Old Man Winter bottles. They have been sourcing bourbon and bottling it for several decades, and they are all easily identified by their uniform use of the same cursive script-style typeface. Company president, MarciPalatella, was Julian Van Winkle III’s agent in the Japanese market for many years, and their early bottlingswere contracted to him in his Old Commonwealth distillery.

The Van Winkle partnership with Sazerac in the early 2000s ended this agreement however, with the production of bottles such as this moved to Willettdistillery, where they were bottled by its owners, Evan Kulsveen’s Kentucky Bourbon Distillers. The stills at Willett were silent at this point and KBD were sourcing most of their bourbon from Heaven Hill. It is likely that this is where this bourbon came from. This bottle, however, is not a Bourbon, and it came from Canada.