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Jefferson's Files a 20-Year-Old Bordeaux-Finished Cask Strength Bourbon
A TTB COLA filing reveals Jefferson's Bourbon Company has registered a 20-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon finished in French Bordeaux wine casks and bottled at cask strength — with only 250 bottles in existence.
TTB Roundup: Four Roses Experiment No. 003 & Lost Lantern's First Virginia Cask
Three June 2026 COLA approvals worth watching: Four Roses files Experiment No. 003 (Chestnut Cask Finish) to extend its Experimental Series, and Lost Lantern debuts its first Virginia straight bourbon from Richmond's Reservoir Distillery.
Silk Velvet Goes Barrel Proof & Four Roses Launches Experimental Series No. 002
Two notable TTB filings land this week: a 7-year single-barrel barrel proof from the recently revived Silk Velvet brand, and the second entry in Four Roses' brand-new Experimental Series — a Kentucky straight bourbon finished in honey casks.
California Bourbon Gets Serious: Redwood Empire's Purple Corn Single Barrel & Corbin Cash's First BIB
Two California distilleries just cleared the TTB on the same day — Redwood Empire with a purple corn single barrel carrying a precise 7-year-8-month age statement, and Corbin Cash with a sweet mash Bottled-in-Bond that makes a pointed argument for what California bourbon can be.
Heaven Hill Signature Series Four Grain: A Brand-New Mashbill Built for the Springs Distillery
Heaven Hill just filed a COLA for the inaugural release of its new Signature Series — a four-grain Kentucky straight bourbon aged six years and sold exclusively at its freshly opened Springs Distillery in Bardstown.
Heaven Hill Phoenix: An 18-Year Bourbon (Blended with Pre-Fire 30-Year-Old Bourbon) Rises from the Ashes
Heaven Hill just filed a COLA for "Phoenix," a Kentucky Straight Bourbon mingling 18-year-old stock with surviving pre-fire 30-year-old bourbon from the original Old Heaven Hill Springs Distillery — a direct tribute to the catastrophic 1996 fire and the distillery's decades-long rebuild.
Very Olde St. Nick "Royal Alchemy" 17-Year Files with TTB
Preservation Distillery has filed a new Very Olde St. Nick expression — "Royal Alchemy" — a 17-year Kentucky straight bourbon drawn from vintage casks, approved by the TTB on May 29, 2026.
New Riff's Founding-Vintage Trio: Three Distillery-Exclusive 375s
Three simultaneous COLA approvals from New Riff Distilling showcase the Newport, KY distillery's founding-vintage whiskeys: an 11-year bourbon made with malted rye, a 10-year Balboa heirloom rye, and an 11-year flagship rye — each a distillery-exclusive 375 ml bottle.