Nice review! I have only seen one bottle in my town here in California. Store owner won’t put a price on it, he is hoping for offers of $1,200.00 to $1,500.00 crazy!
It’s not below 40 degrees. They say it’s 50 degrees. So the whiskey is still aging in there for years. I think it’s pretty good. Drinking it as I’m watching this. Thank you.
The first WT Master’s Keep 17 had some time aging in a cool stone warehouse, similar to this. It was $150 when I bought it. I enjoyed it, but would have liked a higher proof.
I recently tasted Cellar aged against the BEP license plate release. Personally, the nose of both are almost identical but the palette and finish cellar just blows it away.
Just had a pour of this in a northwoods restaurant for $15. . . Safe to say the bartender didn't realize how much they should be charging for that. It was phenomenal!
Got to do the Cellar Aged Tour. After the initial barrel matures, it goes into their limestone cellar for the next 5-6 years. Tasted it against an 11/12 years matured just in the rickhouse and it was astonishing how much better the Cellar was. Said to be an annual release that should become more available in a few years and hopes to get to a 13/14 year.
I do like MM, I have several of them from basic to 46, 101, cask strength & private selection, but I have never seen a bottle of cellar aged on any shelf in any liquor (upstate NY) stores & when I look online the cheapest, I can find it is $399.99 and from their it skyrockets? I do understand that 11 & 12-year juice doesn't come cheap but my god that's a lot of money.
Aged to regular makers then put in their cellar they cut in the side of the mountain in stays at 53 all year . Got to try it next to a straight 12 yr makers not in the cellar it was wasn't even close the straight 12 was I'm sure intentionally way over oaked and too much tannins . Got to drink from the still as well it was awesome .
Glad you got to try it sounds delicious. I’ll be okay with the cask version cause I will never see this bottle. I’m not a camper and around me that’s the only way you’ll get a bottle like this. But again that’s okay I can live vicariously through you. Enjoy!!
This bottle was incredible! Had it at the makers launch event in NYC. They pulled barrels ready for regular makers mark, and then put it in their cellars until it’s ready. No bitterness, lots of flavor, drinks way cooler than its proof! Btw license plate series is done =[
It is a banger! I think it is rare nowadays that a bourbon meets the hype and this one does. It has been scoring pretty high in blinds for us so far this year so I totally agree that it will be high for best whiskey of the year.
Must be nice! Those are gone before the shadow touches the ground here in the west coast. Hopefully they release these through out the year and I'll be lucky to get one! Thanks for the video!
Hoping I can find this Maker's for retail but doubt it. Been enjoying the ECBP C923 lately though which IMO is whiskey of the year level and one of the best ECBP releases in many years. Looking forward to you guys doing a review of the C923 release!
I don't even know which Maker's Mark offerings still use a screw top. Maybe just the regular Maker's Mark and Maker's 46? I know that all the private selects and wood finishing series used synthetic corks. I think their cask strength offerings do too. I would imagine their oldest and most expensive bourbon they've ever released is using a synthetic cork too.
Good but still has that Sour makers taste on the back end to me. Since you brought it up, give me a GTS at 3x's the price and keep the Makers. Its still FOMO
Or even just up to Maine, maybe? I would think you could get similar climate (and even the sea air, though I'm not sure that's something you want in your bourbon) in New England or the Maritime provinces
Ive had this and its good (particularly for Makers), but for $60 i can walk over to most stores in my area and get knob creek 12. I found this for 2x MSRP. Unless Makers can put this out every year and increase quantity (&maintain quality) to compete with ECBP on price, i wont buy another bottle. My $60 are going to buy KC12 every time.
This and ECBP aren't even in the same universe from a complexity standpoint. The last ECBP was a single note and still $100 in most places. This isn't meant to compete with ECBP, it's meant to compete with true limited releases.
@@BourbonJunkies and idk where i went on a rant about how far ECBP has fallen since the pirate bottle days (prolly over at Mash &Drum) but i am talking “historically” (and btw C923 is supposed to be a throwback to those days)- ECBP was 12yr age stated, fairly complex, higher proof, and quite reasonably available. I stopped buying/ stockpiling pirate bottles cause i had no idea how bad / bland they would get through the late 2010s and 2023. Silly me!
@@BourbonJunkies oh, and note that my $60 are being spent on KC12, not ECBP these days. I agree, currently ECBP is not in the same league of whiskey quality as the MM Cellar aged R1.
Another "this could sell for so much more." Love your reviews, but just tell us how good/not good it is, and stop telling every distributor and retailer to raise their price.
Makers is a wheater. Look at Larceny BP. Much younger and like 90-100 in my area. No doubt ECBP is, in today's market, one of the best values out there. Especially 923.
@@davidjohnson8930 Wow Larceny BP in my area is 60 bucks. For that price it beats the crap out of any Makers I've ever had. Granted I have not had the Maker's Cellar Aged. Its not released in Georgia yet that I have seen.
@@williamwiley5531yeah pricing in my area is closer to 60 for larceny bp as well. Not sure why people pay more for wheaters tbh they all have a more muted flavor profile imo
@@williamwiley5531 Yeah at 60-70 Larceny BP blows away makers. I never liked any makers product I've tasted. But cellar select is a different animal. Cheers.
Can someone tell me why anyone cares about the nose? It’s all about the pallette to me, if it smells great bit tastes awful, the nose is irrelevant. So honest question, why spend so much time on the nose? Thx!
@@scottbartlett2087 ignoring the sarcasm, yes, I’m aware that smell and taste can be associated, but you don’t sniff your steak, burgers, fries, etc., and I have a hard time believing that anything but how it actually tastes on your pallette matters. Maybe it’s just me 🤷🏼♂️
@@jreezy70 not trying to be sarcastic, but even though you may not think you are smelling your steaks and fries. You actually are. Whether subconsciously or taking an actual sniff before eating them. Smell is a big factor in taste.
Stop glorifying dusties. A dusty maker's mark is just as average as maker's mark is today. The flavor profile might just be slightly different. The reason Cellar Aged is superior is because it's the oldest bourbon that Maker's Mark has ever released. It's a blend of 11 and 12-year-old bourbon. That's a big jump from the 6-7 years the rest of their stuff is aged.
Total b.s. Hype, hype and more hype. Ridiculous to be paying those prices. I drank Makers 50 years ago. It can't be that much better than it was then. Only so much you can do with it. They're still doing pretty much the same process.
First time I heard the Wood Finishing Series called the License Plate series
Thanks for the clarification I didn't know what they were referring to.
Picked this up in Sydney 2 weeks ago for around 155USD..will open up next year..great review guys.
You know its good when half the bottle is gone before the review
Shared with friends when we got it so others could try it as well!
Y’all should sell pours of rare bottles. I’d pay $50 plus shipping for a 1.5 to just try this hahaha
I think they’ve drank it all prior and just fill it up with regular makers mark. 😊
Or Dan was practicing long pours.
@@BourbonJunkies Dan, where'd you get that shirt? Gotta have it.
Nice review! I have only seen one bottle in my town here in California. Store owner won’t put a price on it, he is hoping for offers of $1,200.00 to $1,500.00 crazy!
He will probably get that in time
Picked mine up for $135, looking forward to trying it.
Love this bottle and was excited for you guys to review it. Glad you enjoyed it (almost) as much as I did.
It’s not below 40 degrees. They say it’s 50 degrees. So the whiskey is still aging in there for years. I think it’s pretty good. Drinking it as I’m watching this. Thank you.
I believe Makers built the Cellar to make this an ongoing release.
Yea they said they wanted to keep it going
The first WT Master’s Keep 17 had some time aging in a cool stone warehouse, similar to this. It was $150 when I bought it. I enjoyed it, but would have liked a higher proof.
I recently tasted Cellar aged against the BEP license plate release. Personally, the nose of both are almost identical but the palette and finish cellar just blows it away.
Nice list..not a makers fan but that is the beauty of bourbon..there are plenty of orhers.
It's aged in the "rickhouse" they built in the side of the hill on their property that is across from the giftshop.
Just had a pour of this in a northwoods restaurant for $15. . . Safe to say the bartender didn't realize how much they should be charging for that. It was phenomenal!
Got to do the Cellar Aged Tour. After the initial barrel matures, it goes into their limestone cellar for the next 5-6 years. Tasted it against an 11/12 years matured just in the rickhouse and it was astonishing how much better the Cellar was. Said to be an annual release that should become more available in a few years and hopes to get to a 13/14 year.
Yea hopefully this sticks around cause it's great
I do like MM, I have several of them from basic to 46, 101, cask strength & private selection, but I have never seen a bottle of cellar aged on any shelf in any liquor (upstate NY) stores & when I look online the cheapest, I can find it is $399.99 and from their it skyrockets? I do understand that 11 & 12-year juice doesn't come cheap but my god that's a lot of money.
Already going for $500-$600 here in CA.
I didn't realize BT froze barrels. I figured they just tanked them in stainless steel. I guess that makes sense if they need the age statement.
Got one for retail at TW for $145! Still haven’t got to open it just yet.
Aged to regular makers then put in their cellar they cut in the side of the mountain in stays at 53 all year . Got to try it next to a straight 12 yr makers not in the cellar it was wasn't even close the straight 12 was I'm sure intentionally way over oaked and too much tannins . Got to drink from the still as well it was awesome .
I love how I was about to comment on the M10 2023 and you mentioned it 😂 how do they compare against each other
Glad you got to try it sounds delicious. I’ll be okay with the cask version cause I will never see this bottle. I’m not a camper and around me that’s the only way you’ll get a bottle like this. But again that’s okay I can live vicariously through you. Enjoy!!
I'll have to start checking stores around here
Missed this one by one spot in our lottery, got Stagg 22B and Elijah Craig Ryder Cup
This bottle was incredible! Had it at the makers launch event in NYC. They pulled barrels ready for regular makers mark, and then put it in their cellars until it’s ready. No bitterness, lots of flavor, drinks way cooler than its proof!
Btw license plate series is done =[
I haven't seen it anywhere in NY.
@@Materman76 it won’t be available here until October but will be really allocated
It is a banger! I think it is rare nowadays that a bourbon meets the hype and this one does. It has been scoring pretty high in blinds for us so far this year so I totally agree that it will be high for best whiskey of the year.
Great another bottle I can’t & wont find… Thanks guys just jealous 👍🏼
Must be nice! Those are gone before the shadow touches the ground here in the west coast. Hopefully they release these through out the year and I'll be lucky to get one! Thanks for the video!
Great work guys ! 🥃
So good! Definitely the BTAC of maker’s
Im still waiting for these to get in Texas
I'm a huge Maker's fan boy and was gutted I couldn't get a bottle of this. Oh well. There's always next year.
We gonna get a Virtue Spirits Crawlspace Aged?
I love it, but it does taste a little like Red Vines on the mid palette
Hoping I can find this Maker's for retail but doubt it. Been enjoying the ECBP C923 lately though which IMO is whiskey of the year level and one of the best ECBP releases in many years. Looking forward to you guys doing a review of the C923 release!
This havent got the ECBP C923 here in MA. Guess still lookin at a couple weeks
Agree
ecbP c923 will be hard to beat imo
Is it still a cheap plastic screw top or did they splurge on corks
I don't even know which Maker's Mark offerings still use a screw top. Maybe just the regular Maker's Mark and Maker's 46? I know that all the private selects and wood finishing series used synthetic corks. I think their cask strength offerings do too. I would imagine their oldest and most expensive bourbon they've ever released is using a synthetic cork too.
“Splurg on the corks” 😆😆😆 Totally agree with this. So ridiculous their 46 is a plastic screw top!
Oh yea, and their Cask Strength.
“Tastes like happiness” and “like an expensive maraschino cherry with semi-sweet chocolate wrapped around it” will end up in a card game someday.
Can't find it anywhere in NY.
I can’t believe that you hung up on me…I was just calling to see if you knew you car warranty was running out 😂
Just pissed I couldn't get one, even at the distillery. Maker's should consider going the Old Forester and Four Roses lottery route.
The "cellar" Maker's uses for the final 5 or 6 years is the same as the finishing area for Maker's 46. It's a constant 50°. MSRP is $150.
I thought the license plate series was done?
Are the license plates the private selections?
Good but still has that Sour makers taste on the back end to me. Since you brought it up, give me a GTS at 3x's the price and keep the Makers. Its still FOMO
Si, great content as always!
Damn the prices will be thru the roof now....
It is the best and the bottle will be thousands of dollars in a few years easily
Good news for you two, or at least Sean, this is a new yearly release, don’t is the MMLE. Cheers gents!😊
Great. Def not gonna be able to get one now 😂
It’s aged where they age 46 barrels
Should have been gold wax.
This expression makes you really wonder what taking a bourbon to Scotland to age, in their cooler climate, might create.
Or even just up to Maine, maybe? I would think you could get similar climate (and even the sea air, though I'm not sure that's something you want in your bourbon) in New England or the Maritime provinces
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Ive had this and its good (particularly for Makers), but for $60 i can walk over to most stores in my area and get knob creek 12. I found this for 2x MSRP. Unless Makers can put this out every year and increase quantity (&maintain quality) to compete with ECBP on price, i wont buy another bottle. My $60 are going to buy KC12 every time.
This and ECBP aren't even in the same universe from a complexity standpoint. The last ECBP was a single note and still $100 in most places. This isn't meant to compete with ECBP, it's meant to compete with true limited releases.
@@BourbonJunkieshave you tried c923 yet? Careful…
@@BourbonJunkies and idk where i went on a rant about how far ECBP has fallen since the pirate bottle days (prolly over at Mash &Drum) but i am talking “historically” (and btw C923 is supposed to be a throwback to those days)- ECBP was 12yr age stated, fairly complex, higher proof, and quite reasonably available. I stopped buying/ stockpiling pirate bottles cause i had no idea how bad
/ bland they would get through the late 2010s and 2023. Silly me!
@@BourbonJunkies oh, and note that my $60 are being spent on KC12, not ECBP these days. I agree, currently ECBP is not in the same league of whiskey quality as the MM Cellar aged R1.
Why's Dan acting like he doesn't want to love it?
I couldnt find a damn bottle!
The only person in America who doesn't want it is Bill Samuels.
I have a bottle, and the oak is bitter and overpowering. Hoping as it is open that fades away and you get more of what you can smell.
Saw this for $899 on secondary. Probably the only time I'll ever see it in a store but had to pass at that price 😢
Yikes, that's a bit steep
Another "this could sell for so much more." Love your reviews, but just tell us how good/not good it is, and stop telling every distributor and retailer to raise their price.
That means I'll see this bottle but it's going to be priced at $175. So hard to buy at these prices. I think I'd have to pass.
I saw it yesterday for $499
I am sorry but when you guys finish the crack rock you're smoking...break out the BTAC on a blind
against any Makers product please!!!
You can not buy that for $150.00
ECBP $70/80, MM $150?
Makers is a wheater. Look at Larceny BP. Much younger and like 90-100 in my area. No doubt ECBP is, in today's market, one of the best values out there. Especially 923.
@@davidjohnson8930 Wow Larceny BP in my area is 60 bucks. For that price it beats the crap out of any Makers I've ever had. Granted I have not had the Maker's Cellar Aged. Its not released in Georgia yet that I have seen.
@@williamwiley5531yeah pricing in my area is closer to 60 for larceny bp as well. Not sure why people pay more for wheaters tbh they all have a more muted flavor profile imo
@@williamwiley5531 Yeah at 60-70 Larceny BP blows away makers. I never liked any makers product I've tasted. But cellar select is a different animal. Cheers.
Can someone tell me why anyone cares about the nose? It’s all about the pallette to me, if it smells great bit tastes awful, the nose is irrelevant. So honest question, why spend so much time on the nose? Thx!
Umm, you do know you get a lot of taste through your nose or the smell of the item you are eating or drinking.
@@scottbartlett2087 ignoring the sarcasm, yes, I’m aware that smell and taste can be associated, but you don’t sniff your steak, burgers, fries, etc., and I have a hard time believing that anything but how it actually tastes on your pallette matters. Maybe it’s just me 🤷🏼♂️
@@jreezy70 not trying to be sarcastic, but even though you may not think you are smelling your steaks and fries. You actually are. Whether subconsciously or taking an actual sniff before eating them. Smell is a big factor in taste.
Stop glorifying dusties. A dusty maker's mark is just as average as maker's mark is today. The flavor profile might just be slightly different. The reason Cellar Aged is superior is because it's the oldest bourbon that Maker's Mark has ever released. It's a blend of 11 and 12-year-old bourbon. That's a big jump from the 6-7 years the rest of their stuff is aged.
Dusty Makers I had was better than today's bruh idk
Total b.s. Hype, hype and more hype. Ridiculous to be paying those prices. I drank Makers 50 years ago. It can't be that much better than it was then. Only so much you can do with it. They're still doing pretty much the same process.