Wild Turkey has just unveiled Master’s Keep Beacon, the final bottle release in its limited Master’s Keep Collection. 

This marks the 10th edition in the series, and is a blend of 16 year old and 10 year old Bourbons, hand-selected by father-and-son duo Eddie Russell and Bruce Russell, Wild Turkey’s master distiller and associate master blender respectively. The Masters Keep series was launched in 2015, to showcase limited expressions outside their core range, with each holding a unique significance for Wild Turkey's founding Russell family. 

Eddie’s selected 16 year old was distilled between 2007 and 2008, and sourced from some of the last remaining barrels laid down at the original Wild Turkey Distillery before its expansion in 2011.

Bruce's 10 year old bourbon selection was distilled a couple years later in 2015, and is also one of the first he produced alongside his father and grandfather master distiller Jimmy Russell. 

The final blend, the Master's Keep Beacon, is said to have notes of dark fruit, cherry, honey, vanilla, and cola on the nose, with a palate of caramelised sugar, toffee, tea, baking spice, mature oak, and leather. 

The previous nine global releases in the Master's Keep collection include: 17 Years (2015), Decades (2016), Revival (2018), Cornerstone (2019), Bottled in Bond (2020), One (2021), Unforgotten (2022), Voyage (2023) and Triumph (2024).

Bottled at 59% ABV, Master’s Keep Beacon will be available globally in limited quantities fom September, with an MSRP of US$300.

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88 Bamboo Editorial Team