K.LUKE Whiskey Company Batch 5 Small Batch 100 Proof Bourbon

Proof: 100 (non-chill filtered)

Bottled: 2/23/26

Age: 7 Year

Total Batch Yield: 8 barrels, 1,665 Bottles

Tasting Notes: The nose is richly fruity, with sweet cherry, raspberry, baked apple, and wildflower honey. It continues to layer into notes of milk chocolate, salted toffee, and warming sweet oak.

The palate is nicely balanced and well-textured, opening with loads of cherry limeade and strawberries and cream before moving into a lightly spiced, slightly chocolate-driven sweet oak.

Voluptuous Luxardo cherry syrup carries long into the finish, joined by a soft pop of mint and nicely charred sweet oak, with lingering notes of orange simple syrup and cream.

About the product: This small batch blend is created by sourcing from several different distilleries in Kentucky and Indiana with different mash bills up to 36% rye and Bourbon aged 7-9 years.

About K.LUKE Whiskey Company: K.LUKE small batch blends are created by sourcing from several different distilleries in Kentucky and Indiana with different mash bills up to 36% rye and a variety of ages from 7-9 years. This allows the focus to be on building multilayered and exciting blends instead of the individual components used to create each blend. Jonathan creates several blends based off his notes and ratings of their barrel inventory, then all blends are run through several rounds of blind tastings with blends being adjusted one barrel at a time by taste (Jonathan and Jennifer do all the blind tastings) until a favorite is decided for bottling. This is The Spirit Of Blending.

K.LUKE Whiskey Company owner and master blender Jonathan Maisano made his first single barrel trip to Kentucky in the summer of 2014.  Since then, he has tasted over 1,600 barrels and selected more than 400 to be deemed as Maisano Hand Select Single Barrels for retail.  Jonathan is also a first level certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers.  He uses this extensive sensory training when evaluating aroma and flavor profiles in whiskey barrels as there are many similar traits in both wine and whiskey when searching for nuances. 

In 2024 Jonathan was named the Blender of the Year from the Barleycorn Awards.