10/02/2026
🥃🔥 TWO BOTTLES WITH A LOT MORE BEHIND THE LABEL
🍁 Black Maple Hill Premium Small Batch — 95 Proof
This is interesting because Black Maple Hill is an old cult wh***ey label, not a distillery. The brand dates back to around 2000 and became particularly associated with sought-after sourced American wh***ey releases. In 2026, Rare Character revived the Black Maple Hill name, making the bottle in your photo part of the brand’s new era.
This particular release is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Wh***ey, bottled at 95 proof / 47.5% ABV. It’s a no-age-statement small batch—the producer emphasizes barrel selection rather than putting an age number on the bottle—and the actual distilling source is not disclosed, so I wouldn’t make up a distillery or mash bill in the caption. The label describes it as aged in select white oak casks, handmade sour mash and hand bottled.
⭐ Sam Houston Small Batch Reserve — 108 Proof
This one deserves more attention than I gave it. Sam Houston’s whole concept is genuinely tiny batches. The brand says each release records the individual bottle number, total bottle yield, batch number, number of barrels, barrel details, mash bill and distillation location specifically to show how small each release is.
It’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon Wh***ey at 108 proof / 54% ABV, and the profile is described around toasted grain, oak, vanilla, wood char, baking spice and honey warmth.
So this isn’t just another generic “small batch” label where hundreds of barrels might be blended together—the selling point is the micro-batch construction and individually identifiable releases.
Both just landed at Premium Liquor. If you’re into bottles with some history and releases that aren’t sitting on every shelf, these are worth checking out.
📍 Premium Liquor — Sachse, TX
🥃 Limited quantities available.
