Old Forester's Annual Unicorn Just Trotted Into Florida Bourbon Country

Old Forester's 2026 "Unicorn Birthday Bourbon" is out, carrying an 11-year age statement and bottled at 97 proof, and it will not last long on the shelves that stretch from Naples to Palm Beach. In Naples, where a good bourbon list is judged by patience rather than showmanship, an age statement past a decade is exactly the kind of detail that gets circled on the menu. Palm Beach tends to treat a bottle like this as a quiet flex, something poured without much ceremony for someone who already knows what it is. Miami, characteristically, will find the occasion to make it loud. The bourbon itself doesn't care which register it lands in — eleven years in the barrel and 97 proof in the glass, once a year, for whoever gets to it first.

With reporting from Robb Report.