Palm Beach Doesn't Do Lines, But It Might Make an Exception for This Bourbon

Old Forester's Birthday Bourbon comes around every year like a dependable guest — pleasant, punctual, occasionally unremarkable. This year's release breaks that pattern: reviewers who taste through the annual bottling say this vintage actually earns the frenzy that surrounds it. For a release collectors have learned to chase on reputation alone, that's the rarer thing to report.

With reporting from Robb Report.