Description

Abraham Bowman Release No. 13 Touriga & Merlot Wine Finished is a Bourbon from A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Fredericksburg, Virginia, bottled at 100 proof (50% ABV). The Abraham Bowman Limited Edition Collection is the distillery’s experimental, small-output line, where Virginia’s oldest continually operating distillery explores how mashbill, maturation, and finishing reshape its whiskey.

This bourbon was finished in Touriga and Merlot wine barrels, an experiment in red-wine cask influence. The combination of a Portuguese grape variety and a classic red layers berry-driven sweetness and gentle tannin onto the spirit, an unusual double-wine approach that pushes the base bourbon well beyond its standard profile.

With no published per-release tasting notes, the profile follows the distillery’s house character: this experimental bourbon leans on the warm vanilla, caramel, and toasted-oak tones that years in charred Virginia barrels dependably produce, framed by the maturity its age and warehouse time provide.

Produced in very limited quantity as part of the long-running Abraham Bowman Limited Edition Collection, this 2015 release is allocated, hard to find, and seldom seen on shelves. Each numbered entry occupies a fixed place in the series, making the collection a natural target for collectors who track the distillery’s experimental output release by release.

Size: 375ml
Proof: 100 (50% ABV)
Origin: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Distillery: A. Smith Bowman Distillery