Stephen Curry’s Gentleman’s Lower Simply Launched Gentleman’s Lower Participant Unique: Father and Son Version

Stephen Curry is a two-time MVP and four-time NBA champion who holds the league report for many profession 3-pointers to go together with the very best profession free-throw share in skilled basketball historical past. It’s fairly the understatement to say his expertise is preciously uncommon. Now he’s able to introduce one thing preciously uncommon into the bottle. 

Gentleman’s Lower, the whiskey model Curry launched final yr together with famed Napa Valley vintner John Schwartz, simply referred to as its latest launch off the bench. Participant Unique: Father and Son Version is a 16-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon celebrating the variety of years the longer term Corridor-of-Famer has now performed within the NBA. 

It’s a quite momentous milestone contemplating that Steph’s dad and mentor, Dell Curry, retired after 16 years within the league. Fittingly, they labored collectively to supply and choose the barrels that went into the ultimate 100-proof mix. And there was solely sufficient of it to fill 1,000 bottles, making it probably the most restricted providing from the model to this point. 

In comparison with the signature Gentleman’s Lower launch, “Stephen and Dell selected a mashbill mix with the next content material of rye, to offer it a spicier and barely sweeter mouthfeel,” says Schwartz of the Father and Son Version, which is comprised of 75% corn, 13% rye and 12% malted barley. “It’s a bourbon with depth, polish, and an extended end.”

However you don’t need to take his phrase for it. Steph himself shared tasting notes on the discharge. And we’ve to say, he sort of has an all-star palate in terms of whiskey. The youthful Curry observes intense aromatics of dried cherries and caramelized sugar within the 16-year-old spirit. On the palate, “mushy notes of charred violet, fig, and wealthy cinnamon notes are balanced by spice and leather-based,” he provides. Whereas “built-in tannins from the prolonged getting old course of give the bourbon a prolonged end.”

“For me, personally, it’s a nice alternative to work with Stephen to create one-time particular releases that we hope will elevate the storytelling and olfactory sensations of bourbon lovers world wide,” provides Schwartz.

For collectors, that particular mix of high quality and valuable rarity is certain to get them within the recreation. So you possibly can anticipate Father and Son Version to be stripped from cabinets lengthy earlier than NBA playoff season rolls round — even at a urged retail value of $950 a bottle. Should you’re fortunate sufficient to attain a pour, don’t even take into consideration taking a shot. This one is strictly for sipping.