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Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Bottled in Bond is a limited release bourbon from Wild Turkey released in June 2020. It is the fifth entry in the distillery’s Master’s Keep series, which features a different expression each year. As a bottled in bond whiskey, it is bottled at 100 proof, and was aged in Wild Turkey’s historic Camp Nelson rickhouses.
Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Bottled in Bond was aged 17 years and is the second 17-year old bourbon in the Master’s Keep series. The first, released in 2015, was bottled at 86.8 proof.
Bottled-in-Bond bourbons are produced under strict regulations, including being distilled in a single distilling season at one distillery, aged in a federally bonded warehouse for at least four years, and bottled at exactly 100 proof.
In 2007, Wild Turkey released their first bottled-in-bond whiskey and first whiskey bottled at 100 proof, historically preferring the 101 proof point. Wild Turkey American Spirit was a 15-year old bottled in bond bourbon and an extremely limited release at only 6,000 bottles and Japan-only distribution.
14,000 bottles of Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Bottled in Bond were released.
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