Old Bardstown "Estate Bottled" - no more age statement?

[eprater]

What's the recent word on the Old Bardstown line, especially the "Estate Bottled" expression? Any idea if it's still a pre-1996 Heaven Hill product?

This forum has a bit of discussion about it archived from '05-06, when it apparently was labeled a 10yo in the US. Jim Murray went gaga over it in the 2006 Whisky Bible, implying that it was a pre-fire HH product, but he hasn't revisited it since.

Last week K&L Wine in Redwood City CA put out 10 bottles on the shelf at $24.99. Same cartoony label as the past (and still bottled at 101 proof), but no explicit age statement.

The brand's web site is (typically) obscure as to the whisky's provenance, with no explicit mention of an age statement on any of the Old Bardstown expressions (although one of the bottle photos has an "Aged 10 Years" sticker on the neck - this is absent from my bottle).

I'm guessing it must be sourced from the "new" Heaven Hill. Anyone know anything more definitive?

[jpact]

I'm bumping this up because I would love to hear an answer to this question.

I just opened my bottle a couple nights ago. I bought it in Bardstown last summer, and will be making a return trip to Kentucky in about a month. I suspect I'll come home with another. :grin:

[barturtle]

It seems the the 10yo is quickly disappearing from the shelves...many bottling are loosing their age statements, both distillery and independent bottler releases.