Each spring, Heaven Hill unveils a new Heritage Collection whiskey that highlights some of the distillery’s oldest aging stocks. One of six traditional Heaven Hill mashbills are featured; in this case, the 2024 Heritage Collection is an 18 year old straight bourbon comprised of 78% corn, 12% malted barley, and 10% rye, bottled at 60% ABV.
The whiskey is a blend of 133 barrels distilled in December 2005 then aged entirely on the third floor of Rickhouse 1I, which is located at Heaven Hill’s Bernheim Distillery in Louisville. These details, and more, are all featured on the bottle. Once the whiskey hits shelves in March it’ll be available for $300.
This is the third release in Heaven Hill’s Heritage Collection, following a 20 year old corn whiskey last year and a 17 year old barrel proof bourbon that blended 17, 19, and 20 year whiskeys in 2022. In 2018 and 2020, Heaven Hill dipped into its aged stocks for two whiskeys—the first a 27 year old Kentucky straight bourbon, and the second a celebratory bottling for its 85th anniversary—whose successes inspired the creation of the annually released Heritage Collection. Heaven Hill has just under two million barrels aging at its six rickhouse sites, which are spread across Nelson and Jefferson Counties. In total, the distillery has almost 70 warehouses, with more in development.
