Maker’s Mark ”The Winning Ticket” Private Select Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey The Prime Barrel Pick #13

Our penultimate pick of 2021 comes bearing gifts just in time for the holidays. Get a bottle, and you could win prizes, including a FREE bottle of this pick!A brief background first. Maker's Mark Private Selection offers a new take on the Maker's Mark 46® process. It begins with cask-strength Maker's Mark® and is aged nine additional weeks in barrels specially fitted with 10 wood-finishing staves in their limestone cellar. Where Private Selection separates itself from Maker's Mark 46 is barrel customization using five different stave types. This results in over 1,001 different possible combinations. As single-barrel bourbons, all Maker's Mark Private Selection expressions are bottled at cask strength – which ranges from 107-114 proof. Ours was bottled at 110.8 proof and has the following stave combination: 0 x P2 (Baked American Pure) staves. We ended up NOT using this stave at all in the final blend formula 3 x Cu (Seared French Cuvée). Cu is made from French oak that's ridge-cut a