With six years of limited edition annual releases, Angel’s Envy keeps bringing us unique and special expressions rich in flavor and body. While they are just starting to play around with different barrel finishes like sherry, for their annual special release they stick with what started it all for them – the rich complexity of a an ex-port barrel finish.

Unlike their normal release, these cask strength special editions take the already heavily aged whiskey and continue to mature them even longer in their finishing barrels. Wes Henderson, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Angel’s Envy said in a prepared statement that out of “every 100 barrels or so, we find one that truly stands out. We’re always looking for those special barrels to put through our extended finishing process.”

If you’ve had one of the previous year’s releases already and don’t think you need to try this one, remember that not only do the flavor profiles of each barrel vary, but so do their aging conditions from year to year. As Henderson also said, “You don’t set out to do better each year, you set out to do different each year.”

Th 2018 version of Angel’s Envy Cask Strength bourbon is of 12,000 bottles, a number that sounds high when you compare it to their first release in 2012 of only 600 bottles. When you think though about how many people love this whiskey it will still be hard to find a bottle after just a short while – especially after people start tasting it.