Very Old St.Nick Estate Reserve Harvest Rye Cask Strength Whiskey

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

The Van Winkle partnership with 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 at this point and KBD was sourcing most of their whiskey from Heaven Hill.

Although the source of the KBD bottling has never been confirmed, Van Winkle has strongly asserted that these Very Olde St Nick were bottled using Heaven Hill bourbon. Palatella concedes that her company was "cut off" by KBD in the 2000s, so it is unclear which Kentucky distillery the source the subsequent Lot 12 bottlings were.

Allied Lomar opened their own Preservation distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky in 2018, and this was the first Very Olde St. Nick bottling to be put on the shelves there, launched in the distillery gift shop at the end of that year.

This is a cask strength rye whiskey that has been distilled and aged in the United States.