Elijah Craig 18 Year Kenwood Pick Barrel #3094 1/29/92

Elijah Craig 18 Year Kenwood Pick Single Barrel #3094. Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky — Distilled January 29, 1992. Barrel #3094. A named retailer single barrel selection from Elijah Craig's vintage single barrel program at Heaven Hill, one of the most precisely documented bottles in the Wooden Cork collection: the exact distillation date, exact barrel number, and the Kenwood selector's name all traceable on the label — from a barrel now more than three decades from its production date.

January 29, 1992 is a specific day at Heaven Hill's Bardstown distillery — a day when the mash was cooked, fermented, distilled, and the resulting new make spirit was filled into Barrel #3094 and placed in the rick house. That barrel has been aging ever since. The 18-year age statement means it was pulled from the warehouse in early 2010, by which point it had cycled through 18 Kentucky summers and winters, accumulating the color, flavor, and complexity that nearly two decades of new charred American oak contact produces at Heaven Hill's specific rick house environment.

Named retailer barrel picks — where a specific store or individual selects and labels a single barrel from a distillery's inventory — are the deepest level of bourbon provenance documentation available. Kenwood's selection of Barrel #3094 created a bottle that exists nowhere else: a specific barrel, a specific selector, a specific day of distillation, and a specific 18-year aging trajectory that cannot be replicated. The Wooden Cork collection includes multiple barrels from the 1990–1992 Elijah Craig distillation cohort — Barrel #3094 (1/29/92, 18yr) alongside 20-year barrels from 3/19/91 (Barrels #27 and #16) — creating one of the deepest collections of vintage Elijah Craig single barrels available at any retailer.

Tasting Notes

• Nose: The depth of 18 years in Heaven Hill's rick houses — concentrated caramel, leather, dried fruit, and deep oak with the high-rye spice integrated over nearly two decades. More complex and concentrated than any standard Elijah Craig expression.
• Palate: Rich and full with caramel, vanilla, deep oak tannin, leather, and dried fruit in a layered, fully integrated expression. The 18-year age creates a completeness of flavor that standard age bourbons cannot achieve. The high-rye mash bill's spice character has been transformed by the extended oak contact into complexity rather than assertiveness.
• Finish: Long, warm, and evolving. The 18 years of barrel contact sustains the finish well past the close with leather, oak, and dried fruit that continue to develop.

Specs

• Distillery: Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
• Barrel Number: #3094
• Distilled: January 29, 1992
• Age: 18 years
• Selector: Kenwood Pick
• Style: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Vintage Single Barrel
• Size: 750ml

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Frequently Asked Questions

• What makes Barrel #3094 significant? The combination of a specific distillation date (January 29, 1992), a specific barrel number (#3094), a named selector (Kenwood), and an 18-year age statement creates a level of provenance documentation that standard commercial releases never provide. Every detail on this label is traceable to a specific moment in Heaven Hill's production history.
• How does this relate to the other vintage Elijah Craig barrels in the Wooden Cork collection? The Wooden Cork collection includes multiple barrels from the same 1990–1992 Elijah Craig distillation cohort: this 18yr Kenwood #3094 (1/29/92), and 20-year barrels #27 and #16 (both 3/19/91). The three barrels span different distillation dates and age statements from the same era of Heaven Hill production — collectively one of the deepest vintage EC collections at any retailer.