Maker's Cellar Aged, Baker's 13, Michter's Toasted Barrel and More New Releases

It's a big week of new releases for bourbon and other American whiskeys, with announcements from major stars including Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch (covered earlier this week), as well as Maker's Mark Cellar Aged, Michter's US*1 Toasted Barrel Sour Mash, Baker's 13 year old, and numerous others detailed below. In scotch, Glenfiddich has a new 16 year old in partnership with Aston Martin's Formula One racing team, while the Tormore single malt brand has a trio of new whiskies as it prepares for a broader U.S. introduction in 2026.

Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged (2025 Edition) Bourbon

ABV: 56.45%
SRP: $175
Availability: Limited

Since its debut in 2023, Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged has represented a dramatic departure from the distillery’s standard bourbon, which is ready at around 7 to 8 years old. While Cellar Aged, like the flagship Maker’s, bears no age statement, it has featured whiskey 11 years or older. The barrels used for Cellar Aged rest in the distillery’s limestone cellar, which was blasted into a hill on its Star Hill Farm property back in 2016. The cellar is set up like a traditional rickhouse, but unlike others at the distillery, it hovers at around 50° or below all year long, enabling a slower, steadier maturation. Now, the third release of Cellar Aged is here, and it includes some of the oldest Maker’s Mark bourbon ever bottled.

The 2025 Cellar Aged is a blend of three component bourbons: 74% 11 year old, 10% 13 year old, and 16% 14 year old. It’s a rich, creamy whiskey, loaded with baking spice, baked apple, caramelized oak, and orange zest (master distiller Dr. Blake Layfield compares it to an "Old Fashioned in a glass"). As a limited release, there’s not a ton to go around; that said, availability will kick off on September 5^th at the Maker’s Mark Distillery, and by mid-September, the whiskey will be on shelves throughout the U.S., as well as in Germany and Global Travel Retail. Later this year, fans in the UK, Australia, Korea, Japan, and Singapore will have access to it as well.

Currently, the oldest barrels within the cellar's limestone walls are at that 14-year mark, and Layfield and lead blender Beth Buckner say there's runway for additional maturation.

Barmen 1873 Lainey Wilson Whirlwind World Tour Bourbon

ABV: 46%
SRP: $35
Availability: Limited

Barmen 1873, the brand owned by beer giant Molson Coors, has released a new bottle design in collaboration with Grammy award-winning Country music singer Lainey Wilson. The liquid is identical to the original Barmen 1873, with the only difference being the new design. Wilson has been a marketing partner of Barmen since last year, and the bottle is meant to commemorate her new 2025 Whirlwind World Tour, which kicked off yesterday and will run until next August. The bottle will be available in markets aligning with her U.S. tour locations, including Nashville, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Tampa, and others.

Michter’s US*1 Toasted Barrel Finished Sour Mash Whiskey (2025 Release)

ABV: 43%
SRP: $110
Availability: Limited

For this annual release, Michter’s takes its original US*1 Sour Mash whiskey—aged in new charred oak barrels with a unique mashbill that disqualifies it from being either a bourbon or a rye—and finishes it for an undisclosed period of time in an uncharred and toasted new American oak barrel.

Toasted barrels have become increasingly popular among whiskey makers, who put them to use as maturation vessels or as finishing casks. It’s often seen with French oak barrels, as some distillers believe that a slower heat treatment coaxes great flavors out of this tighter-grained, spicier wood. But among those that finish with toasted American oak, Michter’s is somewhat unique in that its barrels are uncharred. Many others utilize what’s known as a flash char: a very light charring that lasts around 15 seconds or less, which is said to preserve some of the flavors built up during toasting that would otherwise be overshadowed by a heavier char.

Elijah Craig 2025 Ryder Cup Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon

ABV: 47%
SRP: $70
Availability: Nationwide

Elijah Craig’s latest whiskey celebrates the return of the Ryder Cup golf tournament to the U.S. This year, the tournament, which pits Europe’s best against America’s, is being hosted in New York. As a New York tribute, Elijah Craig has taken its Small Batch bourbon and finished it with toasted staves that are comprised of 75% toasted sugar maple and 25% toasted applewood, in a nod to the Empire State’s flora. The new bourbon is $70, and comes packaged in a commemorative Ryder Cup gift box that’s emblazoned with the official seal of the competition.

Golf and Elijah Craig practically go hand-in-hand—after all, the brand is the Official Bourbon of the Ryder Cup, but also of the PGA of America and of PGA Tour professional golfers J.T. Poston and sports broadcaster Amanda Balionis. Other golf-focused releases have rolled out since these partnerships began in 2023, including a commemorative edition of Small Batch that we quite liked.

Jim Beam Pin Bottle Bourbon

ABV: 43.4%
SRP: $100
Availability: James B. Beam Distilling Co. exclusive

In celebration of its 230^th anniversary, James B. Beam Distilling Co. has introduced the Pin Bottle, an homage to the more than 3,000 uniquely shaped decanters that were released by the distillery between the 1940s and 1990s.

The 2025 Pin Bottle isn’t full of classic Beam—rather, it features 8 year old, 43.4% ABV bourbon that aged in the distillery’s nine-story warehouses, mimicking the maturation site, age, and proof of the original Beam Pin decanters. (By comparison, the flagship Beam bourbon is just 4 years old, and 40% ABV.) The new bottle will be available starting August 23^rd, exclusively at Beam’s distillery in Clermont, Kentucky.

The story goes that Jim Beam himself was a fan of the distillery’s Pin Bottles, regularly gifting them to friends, family, and business associates on special occasions. You can find a great many iterations of the vintage pin decanters on secondhand sites like eBay and Etsy, along with many other distinctive decanters that Beam released over the years.

Baker’s 13 Year Old Single Barrel Bourbon

ABV: 53.5%
Price: $150
Availability: Limited

Launched in 2019 and re-released in 2023, this aged single barrel bourbon from Baker’s is back for the third year in a row. It’s an older, limited edition version of the core 7 year old single barrel in the label’s lineup, which is composed of a high-rye mashbill of 77% corn, 13% rye, and 10% malted barley. Not much has deviated since last year’s release, this one holding the same price tag of $150.

Part of the James B. Beam Distilling family of whiskeys, Baker’s was created in 1962 and is named for Baker Beam, cousin of Booker Noe and grand-nephew of Jim Beam. It has been a single barrel exclusive brand since 2019. It joins two other single barrels in the portfolio, the core 7 year old and a non-age statement expression.

Remus Repeal Reserve Straight Bourbon (Series IX)

ABV: 52%
SRP: $100
Availability: Nationwide

MGP’s Ross & Squibb Distillery in Indiana has released the latest batch of its annual Remus Repeal Reserve. Like previous releases, this year’s version features a fairly complex blend of its two bourbon mashbills (high-rye has a 36% rye share while mid-rye has a 21% rye share), with four distinct components at different ages. The recipe includes:

• 18 year old mid-rye bourbon (7% of the blend)
• 11 year old high-rye bourbon (26% of the blend)
• 10 year old high-rye bourbon (23% of the blend)
• 10 year old mid-rye bourbon (44% of the blend)

Aside from the interesting recipe, it’s worth noting that, at 104 proof, this is the highest-strength release we’ve seen in the Remus Repeal Reserve line. Previous expressions have tended to be bottled at 50% ABV.

Buzzard’s Roost Single Barrel Bourbon

ABV: 57.1%
SRP: $95
Availability: Limited

The latest Founders’ Select release from Buzzard’s Roost is a 6 year old single barrel bourbon. Like all the brand’s whiskeys, this one was double oaked, with secondary maturation occurring in proprietary barrels that are lightly charred and precision-toasted. All Founders Select bottles are hand-picked by Buzzard’s Roost co-founders Judy Hollis Jones and Jason Brauner. Just 100 bottles of the new whiskey are available; a limited number can be found online, with the remainder available at the brand’s microdistillery and tasting room on Louisville’s Whiskey Row.

Buzzard’s Roost Double Oak Cigar Blend Bourbon

ABV: 52.5%
SRP: $85
Availability: Online and at the brand’s Whiskey Row location starting next month

Buzzard’s Roost has just unveiled a sibling to its fan-favorite Cigar Rye. This one is a bourbon that was aged for 6 years and has a mashbill of 60% corn, 36% rye, and 4% malted barley. Like many of the brand’s other whiskeys, this one underwent a double-oaking process—having been initially aged in new charred oak and finished for an undisclosed period in lightly charred and heavily toasted barrels.

Cigar whiskeys, which are supposedly built from the ground up to be paired with premium tobacco products like pipes and cigars, have become very popular in recent years. Each distiller in the game swears by a different method, but the most common approach involves a cask finish like port, sherry, or a fine brandy like cognac or armagnac—to impart sweet notes that can cut through and meld with heavier, earthy cigar notes. Others like Tomintoul and Cedar Ridge double down on the smoke by adding peated malt into the mix.

Fans who didn’t get a chance to try Buzzard's Roost's original Cigar Rye will be happy to hear that Buzzard’s Roost is releasing a single barrel version, alongside a single barrel cask strength iteration of the new Cigar Blend bourbon, in limited quantities. Interested parties can learn more about these by contacting the distillery at Ryan@buzzardsroostspirits.com.

Chicken Cock Miller’s Reserve American Whiskey

ABV: 57.5%
Price: $100
Availability: online

Bardstown-based Chicken Cock has unveiled a limited release blended whiskey. Four different whiskeys make up the total blend, each sourced from locations dotted on the Ohio River Valley. The river plays a pivotal role in the whiskey’s lore. Barrels, belonging to founder James A. Miller, sank near Warsaw, Kentucky aboard the A.O. Tyler in 1860 after it collided with submerged wreckage, hence the name Miller’s Reserve. Half of the recipe is wheated bourbon, composed of an 8 year old from West Virginia and a 10 year old from Ohio. An 8 year old high-rye bourbon from Indiana and a 10 year old double oak Kentucky whiskey are also in the mix.

The official launch is slated to take place on September 6th, during the Kentucky Bourbon Festival at Circa 1856, the label’s official home that opened last June. It joins other limited releases, such as a rum barrel-finished expression and two collaborative reserve cask whiskeys.

Great Jones Distillery Reserve 10 Year Old Bourbon

ABV: 52.5%
Price: $200
Availability: Distillery exclusive beginning September 9th

Great Jones Distilling, the first distillery in Manhattan since Prohibition, has released a new 10 year old bourbon. Aged in upstate New York, it's made using New York-grown corn, malted barley, and rye from the Hudson Valley and cut with water from the Catskills. It's also aged entirely upstate, where temperatures vary from cold winters to hot, humid summers. This affects the barrel wood’s expansion and contraction, allowing the bourbon to draw greater depth of flavor from the oxidizing lignin structures in the wood. Great Jones launched in 2021, and its whiskey has been made at Black Dirt Distillery in upstate New York. Both Great Jones and Black Dirt are owned by Proximo Spirits, which is best known for its Jose Cuervo tequila but also owns whiskeys, including Stranahan’s, Bushmills, and Pendleton, among others.

Though more recently bolstering its core range with a wheated bourbon released in June, Great Jones also offers distillery exclusives, usually experimenting with cask finishes. This whiskey joins another distillery exclusive, a peated bourbon. Both are available at the tour and tasting facility in the NoHo area of downtown Manhattan.

Glenfiddich 16 year old Aston Martin Formula One Edition Speyside Single Malt

ABV: 43%
SRP: $73
Availability: Nationwide starting in September

Next month, Speyside distillery Glenfiddich is unveiling a new limited edition expression in collaboration with Aston Martin’s Formula One racing team—building on a partnership that was struck last November. The whisky carries a 16-year age statement, representing a blend of malts aged in American oak wine casks, virgin American oak, and second-fill bourbon barrels.

Tormore 10 year old Blueprint Series

Bourbon Barrel Speyside Single Malt

Cream Sherry Cask Speyside Single Malt

Toasted Barrel Speyside Single Malt

ABV: 48%
SRP: £60 ($80)
Availability: Limited

Ever since its stills were first fired up in 1961, single malts from the underrated Speyside distillery Tormore have never been widely available in the U.S. There have been some independent bottlings over the years, but distillery-owned bottlings have been few and far between. That’s because, like many single malt scotch distilleries, its malts have long been allocated for blending—initially for the Long John brand, and also for Ballantine’s. Since 2022, Tormore has been owned by Elixir Distillers, the UK company founded by brothers Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh, who also own online retailer The Whisky Exchange. Elixir’s brands include Port Askaig and Elements of Islay, and now it’s seeking to grow Tormore as a brand.

In early 2026, the distillery will unveil a new core range. But in the meantime, it’s offering a trio of single malts in its Blueprint Series as an early tease. All three are made from stocks distilled before the Elixir acquisition, reworked and rebarreled by distillery manager Polly Logan and master blender Oliver Chilton. As the names suggest, Bourbon Barrel features bourbon barrels, Cream Sherry Cask is from casks that held cream sherry, a somewhat uncommon variety in the whisky world made by blending dry and sweet sherries together. Toasted Barrel was recasked in virgin American oak barrels that have a heavy toast and a medium char level. 1,500 bottles of each expression were produced.