Russell's Reserve - 4 Bottle Bundle (2025 13yo + 3 New Russell's Single Barrels)

THIS OFFER IS EXCLUSIVE TO DRAMMERS MEMBERS ONLY - 1 BUNDLE PER MEMBER

PLEASE NOTE: IT IS A CONDITION OF BUYING THIS THAT YOU DO NOT FLIP THE 13YO 2025 RELEASE; We are getting insanely hooked up here — these bottles will be very hard to find, and while we always sell at MSRP, that will be nearly unheard of with these bottles —virtually nobody is selling them at MSRP, usually its 3x or more. The reason we are getting such a hookup for our members is because our friends at Campari like us and trust us when we say our members will keep them for themselves, and will not flip the bottles. Wild Turkey can and does track these bottles, and if someone in our club flips theirs, we may not get an allocation next year. So, it is a condition of buying a bottle that you agree not to flip it. Please don’t ruin it for everyone!

This is a 4 bottle bundle that includes 1 bottle of each of:

• The 2025 release of Russell’s Reserve Bourbon 13yo. Bottled at 61.9% abv, their highest for the series yet.

• Plus 3 new Russsell’s Reserve single barrel bourbons, all aged 8 years and bottled at 55% abv, which we have named:

  • “Flavie-Flav” (cherry notes),

  • “Ice Ice Flavie” (milky/creamy notes) and

  • Mr. Tea (English breakfast tea notes)

WHEN WILL THIS BE DELIVERED? We don’t have an exact date — likely August, but could be September. We learned from the process last year with the 15yo (when we put up the pre-sale in May!) which is partly why we’ve waited until now to make this announcement, so it should be a shorter wait this year, but just to be 100% clear, we don’t have an exact delivery date yet, so fair warning!

Backstory on the Barrel Names:

It’s hard to believe, but following on the selection last year of our wildly popular “I Like Bob” Russell’s Reserve single barrel, this year we’ve been part of the selection of THREE new private barrels from Russell’s Reserve, the much-sought after high-end single barrels from our friends at Wild Turkey, and happily we have managed to secure an allocation of all three for our members. All three are aged 8 years and bottled at 55% abv, and when we went down to Kentucky to pick the barrels, the initial plan was we would have half Drammers: Charlie, Justin McKee (who heads up Drammers Birmingham) and Bill Meyers from Drammers St. Louis. The other half of the barrel picking crew was going to include none other than Flavien Desoblin, the owner of the legendary Brandy Library whisky bar in NYC along with a couple of the whisky experts from his bar. But then, at the last minute (the night before), Flavien canceled. Now Flavien is a longtime close friend of the club, we’ve hosted dozen events with him over the years (even an event celebrating the release of a fictional whisky novel he wrote!), so of course, we said no problem, we understand and of course we went ahead and did the barrel picks without him.

BUT, naturally, we gave him non-stop shit for it all-weekend.

As part of that noble effort, we decided that we would create giant “tater” stickers featuring silly pictures of Flavien for the barrel picks. Initially that was just going to be two barrels — initially we were going to be part of the selection of one barrel at Wild Turkey and one at Wilderness Trail. Then when we tried all the barrels at Wild Turkey, we fell in love with THREE of the barrels. They’re all 8 year Wild Turkey single barrels, but one had a distinct cherry note that we loved. Another had an unusual milky/creamy note that we couldn’t pass up, and the third had a delicious black tea / English Breakfast tea thing going on. So after much debate and hand-wringing, we started a discussion. Was there any world in which we could get an allocation of all 3 Russell’s barrels? It took some phone calls and a lot of promising, but in the end they made it work for us. UNREAL.

So, then we set to work creating the most ridiculous “tater” stickers that we could think of to give Flavien a hard time for bailing, which naturally we kept texting to him all weekend. We started sending pictures of him jumping out of a pile of marshmallows, him as Flavie Flav, as Ice Ice Baby, etc. Flavien tried ignored us for a while, and then ultimately started texting back, basically just saying “WTF?!?” so we knew we were on the right track. When he asked what the hell was going on, we just kept responding “If you were here, you would understand”.

So, after well over 100 single barrel picks under our belt refusing to do bottle stickers, we have finally relented and created our first Drammers Tater stickers. One is called “Flavie-Flav” (the cherry one). One is “Ice Ice Flavie” (of course the milky/creamy one). And the other is “Mr. Tea”. Then (determined to use the marshmallow image somewhere), we called our single barrel of Wilderness Trail rye “Marshmallow Rainbow”.

They are all delicious and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do. :)