Rare Perfection 12 Year Old Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey

Rare Perfection is a boutique bourbon brand owned by Allied Lomar in California, whose other products include Very Olde St. Nick, Wattie Boone, and the Old Man Winter bottles. They have been sourcing bourbon and bottling it for several decades, and they are all easily identified by their uniform use of the same cursive script-style typeface. Company president, Marci Palatella, was Julian Van Winkle III's agent in the Japanese market for many years, and their early bottlings were contracted to him in his Old Commonwealth distillery.

The Van Winkle partnership with Sazerac in the early 2000s ended this agreement; however, with the production of bottles such as this moved to Willett distillery, where they were bottled by its owners, Evan Kulsveen's  Kentucky Bourbon Distillers. The stills at Willett were silent, and KBD was sourcing most of their bourbon from Heaven Hill. This likely is where this bourbon came from.  

This is a small batch of 12-year-old bourbon bottled by Kentucky Bourbon Distillers at Willett. Although the Willett distillery is producing its liquid again now, it was still silent from the early 1980s until 2012.