Jefferson's Ocean - Bottle variation?

[David D]

I don't think anyone assumed you were lying about the charity stuff but just to be safe, make sure that you are holding a copy of today's newspaper next to the check and that both Julian Van Winkle AND Harlen Wheatley are in the frame and jointly holding a bottle of PVW 23 or no one will believe anything.

Good one. I'll make sure to dot my "i"s and cross my "t"s

[LostBottle]

Hi guys. This is most likely going to the Stanford Childrens Hospital. That's where we usually focus most of our charitable donations. I'll take a photo of the check and post it on the blog later so you know I'm not full of crap.

Thanks!

[tanstaafl2]

So, as noted in the recent purchases thread, I managed to get a bottle of the Jeff Ocean after all. I even paid (a little) less than the $200 retail price that had been bandied about.

Now I am curious to know a little more about it. There is not any info I can find on the Jefferson bourbon website. Since Jefferson Bourbon/Mclain & Kyne "distillery" are I presume in reality a bottler (maybe somebady else is doing that step too?) or marketer and not a distiller (I think the name now is Mclain & Kyne, Ltd and the distillery part is no longer in the name) they obviously get it from somebody else.

I was curious if there was any information on the source of the Jefferson Ocean. I am guessing it is not much different from where ever they source their regular bourbon but I was curious if in this case they got brand new make spirit in the barrel or if what they sourced had already been aged a bit.

Presumably the company doesn't typically get unaged barrels of whiskey as they also don't have their own warehouses and are bottling bourbon distilled AND aged elsewhere. But the Ocean must be a little different since it was aged at least part of time on board the ship. I suppose if they are working with a distiller to buy bourbon it isn't that big a stretch to get a few barrels of white dog from the distillery to play with (the pictures I have seen always show only three barrels).

Does Jefferson/Mclain & Kyne get bourbon from many different sources? I presume the answer is yes as the Presidential Select is reportedly from S-W (Or Bernheim juice aged at S-W depending on who you believe!) and the rye is from Canada while younger bourbon must be from somewhere else. Or do they have a known and ongoing relationship with one or more distilleries?

Does anybody have any knowledge about the source? Really just curious to know who made the Ocean bourbon. I also keep seeing references in the publicity blurbs to it being "blended" in Kentucky rather than distilled which strikes me as a little curious as well. Is it a blend of several distilleries? A blend of mash bills from Four Roses?

Whatever it is, it isn't going to stop me from trying it! But it would be interesting to know if the information is out there.

[Ahhirsch16]

Has anyone tried the Ocean yet?

[tanstaafl2]

Has anyone tried the Ocean yet?

[CaptainQ]

Has anyone tried the Ocean yet?

[HighHorse]

Six of us in Tallahassee chipped in on a bottle to taste. Our tasting is scheduled for this Saturday and I'll post the comments from our early tasting. We ended up with three bottles .. and are tasting first before deciding on who gets the other two. We had a sit-down with Trey while in Bardstown and he shared with us that of the 250 bottles that he ended up with, he only got one for himself. The bottles we have are much lighter .. more typical .. than some of the earlier pictures that were on the web. Trey's sending these barrels out on an ocean-going barge was an experiment ... an idea of the moment .. as he had a friend that owned a barge and they got to talking and decided, "why not"? Of the six barrels they started with there were some unexplained misadventures and they ended up with far fewer than they started with. I like the idea that he experiments like this. Whether it works or not is really only his risk. I've yet to have anything he's bottled that wasn't darn good juice. I look forward to this weekend.