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This Prime Barrel bundle dropped last week, and we are making a few of them to the wider audience, and it comes with a free shipping offer.

The Mugen Spirit Yokai Kuko (Pick #163) anchors the set — a 9-year, 10-month wheated bourbon built on a honey roasted malt mashbill that only six barrels in existence share. Toasted honey and baked apple aromas drift forward before a long praline finish settles in at 127.3 proof. It's rich in a way that feels almost architectural, each layer deliberate and distinct.

Leopold Bros.' "Ryevivalist" (Pick #160) is the one that stops people mid-sip. Distilled on a resurrected three-chamber still — a method dormant for over 50 years — it's made from 80% heritage Abruzzi rye and floor-malted barley. Floral, oily, viscous. Cinnamon apple and wildflower honey weave through a spiced finish that lingers. This is the first private barrel Leopold Bros. has ever released. That's not marketing language; it's just true.

Nashville Barrel Company's "Smashville" (Pick #84) rounds things out with a 6-year Indiana rye that's more approachable but no less considered — pastry cream and dried dill on the nose, candied ginger and silky caramel on the finish at 116.88 proof.

Cheers,

De Wine Spot