Orphan Barrel Entrapment 25YO Blended Canadian Whisky - Distilled 1992 / Bottled 2017 (41%, 75cl)

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Orphan Barrel Entrapment 25YO Blended Canadian Whisky - Distilled 1992 / Bottled 2017 (41%, 75cl)
  • Orphan Barrel Entrapment 25YO Blended Canadian Whisky - Distilled 1992 / Bottled 2017 (41%, 75cl)
  • Orphan Barrel Entrapment 25YO Blended Canadian Whisky - Distilled 1992 / Bottled 2017 (41%, 75cl)
  • £300.00

Era: Distilled 1968 / Bottled 1972
ABV: 40%
Volume: 75cl



The Orphan Barrel brand was devised by Diageo in 2013. The company's previous iteration, United Distillers had been very active in the American whiskey market in the 1980s, however when they became Diageo in 1997, the focus of the company shifted elsewhere. The result was the offloading in 1999 of what are now several prize assets, including the Bernheim distillery to Heaven Hill along with the Old Fitzgerald brand, and the Weller brand to the Sazerac Company. Further to this, believing bourbon to be passed its best beyond the age of 12 years, it offloaded huge quantities of stock from the legendary Stitzel-Weller distillery, much of which was bottled by what are now hugely sought after independent labels like Very Olde St Nick, Jefferson's Reserve and Pappy Van Winkle. Having given up what is now a veritable who's who of collectible bourbon, it is hardly surprising that the company were keen to reinvest in the booming American whiskey industry of the 2000s. The Orphan Barrel series was intended to tap into that same collectors market, making use of the stock retained from their former (and occasionally current) distillery portfolio across the US and Canada, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s had consolidated the empires of two of the biggest post-Prohibition distillers in Schenley and Seagram.

With a mash bill of 97% corn and 3% malted barley, the whiskies that make up Entrapment were distilled by Crown Royal in Gimli, Manitoba in 1992 before being laid down for 25 years.  As with all the whiskies in the Orphan Barrel range, Entrapment was bottled at Cascade Hollow Distillery in Tullahoma, Tennessee.  It represents the first Canadian whiskey in the portfolio!  Go Canada! 

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