Here’s a brief background and tasting notes on some of today's top bourbon values ... offering aged longer than their standard bottom shelf bourbons, typically around 6 years.

But with every other bourbon shelf, the key is filtering out the cream ... Mostly because, well, they do it well. Four of the top six were all from the distillery. And it tracks.

Tickets for the event are available at the Top Shelf website or through ReserveBar. Nineteen Straight Bourbons won Double Gold, and 27 won Gold medals. Ten Special Barrel-Finished Bourbons won ...

Top-shelf bottlings were non-existent ... And all of which just might make you wonder whether bourbon is actually that other whiskey. The latest label from this historically celebrated purveyor ...

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