The very large book is on Van Winkle Bourbon: The Bespoke Barrels. This is a magnum opus in both senses of the word: size and documentation. It was written by Gil L. Schwartz, a Las Vegas based wine and spirits expert who has gone through with Julian Van Winkle III, to document and photograph all the labels extant of all the whiskies bottled for private customers from the Van Winkle stocks and others. Corti Brothers is involved in this since the Van Winkle bottlings under either our label or and which we have sold, make up a central part of this work. For a person who appreciates history and its documentation, this is a very impressive work. It is a Limited Edition. The binding is leather, enclosed in a clothbound slipcase. It is 12 inches by 15.21 inches in size, 320 pages printed on acid free, archival quality, 200gsm Japanese Art Paper, with end papers depicting probably all of the enclosed bottling labels. It is a remarkable work itself with a likewise hefty price of $789.00 plus tax and shipping.

However, if you are a Bourbon fancier, this really is “a piece of work.” You will probably find out more about Bourbon than you could imagine. The stories themselves are worth the price. Nothing like it has ever been attempted before. But it does exemplify what makes history of a singular product.