Heaven Hill Distillery Releases Heaven Hill Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon
Heaven Hill Distillery has announced the release of Heaven Hill Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey, a limited edition expression drawn from barrels aged at Heaven Hill’s Deatsville campus.
Crafted from a mashbill of 78% corn, 10% rye, and 12% malted barley, Heaven Hill Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon is bottled from just 17 barrels aged on the third floor of Rickhouse AA, and represents one of the final few opportunities to experience Bourbon fully matured entirely at the Deatsville campus before the site transitions out of active aging.
The Deatsville campus, originally home to the shuttered T.W. Samuels Distillery, has been a part of Heaven Hill’s heritage since the early 1980s, when the company first assumed stewardship of the rickhouses. Today, the site encompasses nine Heaven Hill owned rickhouses with capacity for aging a total of 167,000 barrels. It is the only Heaven Hill barrel aging campus constructed with tiered roof architecture, a distinctive design that promotes a natural stack effect, allowing warm air to rise and escape while drawing cooler air inward through lower openings. This airflow dynamic creates subtle differences in maturation, contributing to Deatsville’s signature influence within Heaven Hill’s aging inventory. Heaven Hill ages whiskey across six distinct warehouse sites in Kentucky, each imparting its own character based on structure, airflow, and environment.
As part of Heaven Hill’s long-term stewardship of its aging assets, all nine Deatsville rickhouses will transition to regauge-only status over the next 12–24 months, marking the gradual aging out of the campus from active maturation. The buildings will remain standing and secure. Most barrels currently aging at Deatsville will be relocated to other Heaven Hill sites and may be referenced in future releases as having spent a portion of their maturation at Deatsville. This 13 Year Old release is the first chapter in a multi-year tribute to the Deatsville site, with additional releases and commemorative moments planned through 2027.
Alongside the release of Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon, Heaven Hill has announced that guests will be able to access the private Deatsville rickhouse campus through a Deatsville Tour & Tasting experience. The tour includes visits to two rickhouse sites and early access to the Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon. Tickets for this tour will be available beginning on March 15 through the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience website.
Heaven Hill Deatsville 13 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey carries a suggested retail price of $199.99.
Source: Heaven Hill Distillery.