Neeley Family Distillery has released PaPaw’s Legacy Reserve 10-Year-Old Triple Pot-Stilled Bourbon. It honors Master Distiller Royce Neeley’s grandfather, Earl “PaPaw” Sizemore, who helped make the family business legal in 2015 after ten generations of Neeley moonshiners. Together they distilled more than 1,000 barrels.
After PaPaw died in 2024, Royce chose the 10 best barrels they had made together and batched them in a neutral holding tank so they would stop aging. Each year he will release no more than half of the tank and refill it with the best barrels, so the original supply never runs out. It is the oldest triple pot-distilled bourbon ever released.
“It’s bittersweet to think of someday the barrels being depleted that PaPaw and I distilled together, but through replenishing our holding tank each year with the best barrels, it’s a way for PaPaw’s legacy to live on, and I know he would have loved to be celebrated this way,” said Royce Neeley, Master Distiller. “He loved coming to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, and through the years, thousands of people got their picture taken with him and autographed bottles. His last event before he passed was the KBF, and although he was very sick, he attended every day with his trademark smirk, selling and signing. That memory makes it even more meaningful to us to celebrate him this weekend with this release.”
Specs: 10 years old, 110 proof, cask strength wheated bourbon, 750 bottles, $299.99.
Availability:
It debuted at the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival and is sold at Neeley Family Distillery in Sparta, Ky., while supplies last.
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