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Bottle Details
Maker's Mark 46 Cask Strength Sample 37.5cl
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 intitially 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.
Maker's Mark 46 was the first new product released from the Loretto based distillery since the 1950s when it was launched in 2010. The whiskey is fully aged Maker's Mark bourbon that has had \"caramelised French oak staves inserted to the barrel for a several month finishing period, adding a rich spicy character.
This is a sample of the 2020 limited release version, bottled as cask strength to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Julian Van Winkle III has previously recommended Maker's 46 to wheated bourbon enthusiasts as a more easily-located alternative for his own elusive bottlings.
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