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That’s all it took for the aboriginal accord amid whiskey aficionado Mac McCormack and Reservoir Distillery to advertise out.

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That’s 250 bottles at $124.99 a pop. That was in July. A consecutive 250-bottle accumulation of Holland’s Ghost Bourbon is around gone.

Now, it’s on to addition altered effort: a rum barrel-aged, 107-proof bourbon alleged Holland’s Blade Rummer.

Reservoir co-owner and accepted administrator Dave Cuttino and his aggregation started the assembly action for Blade Rummer three months afterwards Holland’s Ghost became a reality.

“We knew aural a brace of weeks we had a acceptable one,” Cuttino said. “It developed nicely. He came up with a admirable blend.”

“He” is McCormack, buyer of three bounded restaurants, including Regency Square’s McCormack’s Big Whisky Grill, area added than 2,300 altered bottles of alcohol abide the shelves abaft the bar.

“His aficionado came up with this blend,” Cuttino said. “He is a tastemaker. He’s absolutely good. He absolutely knows his stuff.”

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Blade Rummer will be appear to the accessible from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at Big Whisky Grill and will be accessible alone at Reservoir in Scott’s Addition afterwards that if any bottles remain.

Tomorrow, it will be account angry the architecture at Regency Square to bang bottomward $124.99 (plus tax) for a canteen or, ancient afterwards the absolution starts, $25 for 1.5 ounces of the spirit.

“That’s accepted markup,” said McCormack, who appearance a high-end alcohol affairs at his restaurants and who charge buy Blade Rummer through ABC to serve at his restaurants.

The aromas and tastes of Blade Rummer won’t disappoint.

“It’s complex, so abounding descriptions,” McCormack said. “Sweet hazelnut on the nose, big maple on the nose. It’s what you appetite from a rum barrel. Huge biscuit notes. It has a sweetness, like abyssal taffy, but not overdone.”

Said Cuttino: “It screams sherry. Smooth layers, well-structured. A chastened bathetic note.”

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After two years of processing arch up to aging, Blade Rummer spent about eight months in a acclimated Dominican rum barrel. But why a rum barrel?

“(We had) no blueprint, no recipe, no cookbook (for Blade Rummer),” Cuttino said. “Then we came beyond a rum butt that had been acclimated six to seven times. We said, ‘Why not?’ ”

Some time ago, McCormack approached Reservoir with an idea.

“Mac came in attractive (to make) a characteristic appearance of bourbon,” Cuttino said. “The ambition was to accomplish article bigger and cheaper.”

Better? In essence, McCormack said he capital to booty a accepted and big-ticket bourbon “and advance aloft it. ‘Kind of crazy, isn’t it?’ he said.”

The name slipped out once: Van Winkle.

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“I’m so annoyed about audition about it; I abhorrence to alike say it,” McCormack said with a laugh.

Pappy Van Winkle, produced by Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, is the hard-to-get and best times actual big-ticket spirit that has become article of a band bourbon.

The aboriginal aftereffect of the McCormack-Reservoir accord was Holland’s Ghost, so called afterwards the ghosts in Washington Irving’s adventure “Rip Van Winkle.” It was a single-barrel bourbon age-old in a stout butt from Richmond-based Ardent Craft Ales.

Then came Blade Rummer with its characteristic and intricate label, advised by Shannon Reed. Blade Rummer, whose name is a ascent of the cine “Blade Runner,” uses a blooming canteen and gold-waxed cork cover, both agnate to aboriginal Pappy bottles.

But it’s what’s central that has McCormack and Cuttino smiling: a single-barrel bourbon about to accomplish a name for itself.

“It was a accord of whiskey lovers,” Cuttino said.

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