Heaven Hill has introduced its annual Parker’s Heritage launch for 2025. The nineteenth launch within the famed lineup, this 12 months’s bottling is a Kentucky straight American whiskey blended from three distinct mash payments: 15 year-old wheated bourbon, 11 year-old corn whiskey, and 12 year-old two-grain whiskey distilled from rye and malted barley.
The bottle carries an 11-year age assertion, signifying the youngest element within the mix.
This 12 months’s Parker’s Heritage whiskey was blended from 160 totally different barrels throughout these three whiskey varieties.
- The 15 year-old wheated bourbon was distilled from a mash invoice of 68 % corn, 20 % wheat, and 12 % malted barley (the identical because the Previous Fitzgerald and Larceny strains) earlier than ageing in Rickhouse A.
- The 11 year-old corn whiskey was distilled from a mash invoice of 80 % corn, 12 % malted barley, and eight % rye (the identical as Mellow Corn). It was aged throughout Rickhouses DD, GG, and BB.
- The 12 year-old whiskey was distilled from rye and malted barley earlier than ageing in Rickhouse Y.
All three whiskeys had been aged individually earlier than mixing. The ultimate batch was then bottled at a cask power 122.5 proof, or 61.25 % ABV, with out chill filtration. This nineteenth Parker’s Heritage is a extremely allotted, restricted launch that may hit cabinets within the U.S. and choose worldwide markets beginning in September 2025. The steered retail value is $179.99.
Launched in 2007 and launched each Fall, the Parker’s Heritage Assortment is a premium annual bottling highlighting variations and experiments on Heaven Hill’s distillates, ageing strategies, and barrel varieties. Earlier releases have included wheat whiskey aged in heavy char barrels, double barreled bourbon, cask power rye whiskey, 24 year-old bottled-in-bond bourbon, and Kentucky malt whiskey completed in heavy toast cognac barrels.
(As compared, the Heaven Hill Heritage Assortment typically focuses on one of many firm’s six core mash payments, aged a minimum of 15 years. The 2025 Heritage Assortment launch was a 19 year-old wheat whiskey.)
The road is known as for the late Parker Beam, who started working at Heaven Hill in 1960 earlier than taking up distilling operations within the Seventies. All through his profession, Beam was a central determine in American whiskey and influenced a number of generations of distillers and craftspeople within the trade. Beam was recognized with ALS in 2010 and handed away in early 2017 on the age of 75. Since 2013, a portion of proceeds from Parker’s Heritage Assortment gross sales have been donated towards ALS analysis and affected person care, with over $1.4 million contributed thus far.
“With every launch of Parker’s Heritage Assortment, we honor Parker Beam’s legacy by pushing the boundaries of American Whiskey,” Conor O’Driscoll, Heaven Hill’s grasp distiller, mentioned in a press launch. “This nineteenth Version is a celebration of innovation and craftsmanship, bringing collectively three mashbills and age statements to create a posh, daring whiskey that really stands out.”
Based in 1935, household owned Heaven Hill is among the nation’s largest spirits producers, and the corporate’s Bernheim Distillery close to Louisville can produce round 450,000 barrels of whiskey per 12 months. Heaven Hill not too long ago started manufacturing at a brand new facility in Bardstown, Kentucky — named Heaven Hill Springs — that may initially add one other 150,000 barrels per 12 months.
