This whiskey is distilled meticulously from a high-quality grain mashbill platform, utilizing ancestral copper column configurations at DSP-KY-113 in Frankfort, Kentucky. The specific barrels chosen for the celebrated 2016 batching run were cellared for six years on the dynamic upper floors of Warehouses I, K, and M. Bypassing modern chill-filtration parameters entirely ensures all natural wood vanillins and heavy grain crop oils remain fully locked inside the bottle framework under the long-standing management parameters of the Sazerac Company.

Every bottle handled by Midnight Whiskey is procured strictly through authorized, verified allocation channels and passes rigorous physical seal and label inspection points before being logged into inventory. Shipments are handled via specialized, glass-rated container packaging and absolute age-verification checks; an adult signature (21+) is strictly mandatory upon delivery. Review our complete protocols via our authentication process, how the Vault holds and hands off a bottle, and our sourcing policy in detail.

What proof is the 2016 Thomas H. Handy Sazerac?

The 2016 Thomas H. Handy comes in at 126.2 proof (63.1% ABV), uncut and unfiltered, at barrel strength. It is a straight rye whiskey distilled in the spring of 2010, making it roughly six years old. Its strength comes straight from the barrels, with no cutting or filtering.

Why is Thomas H. Handy so much younger than the rest of the Antique Collection?

Thomas H. Handy is built to showcase rye at full power in a relatively young whiskey—around six years old in 2016—rather than the long aging of the collection's bourbons and its 18-year rye. Bottled uncut and unfiltered, it puts the grain's spice front and center, which is why it reads as bolder and hotter than the older, mellower releases managed under the Sazerac corporate group.