Jack Daniels Holiday Select

As the Holiday Season is about to start, Jack Daniels has a new Single Barrel out for the third consecutive year, called the Holiday Select.

Every year before X-mas quite a few barrels are stacked in Lynchburg as a X-mas tree. To build this 'tree' from barrels they use this plan to stack them safely

It even is such wonderful sight, even such barrel tree was stacked in London 2012.

Here you see the start of the barrel stacking

Here's an awesome picture of the finished (and decorated) 'tree'








Now I hear you wonder: 'Are those full barrels?' Well the answer to that is negative. The barrels are all empty. The whiskey that used to be aging in those barrels, they poured into bottles and called them Holiday Select. These bottles are a limited issue, because only whiskey from the designated 'tree'-barrels can be called Holiday Select.
Here are pictures from the Holiday Selects from three consecutive years, with the last picture being the 2013 HS.

2011

 

2012

 

2013

 

 

Normally you'll find the Holiday Select in 750ml bottles. Since they did a tree in London in 2012, even a 700ml Holiday Select 2012 exist.
To make this bottle even more collectable, apart from being it a limited bottle, is the South African version. This particular HS for the Sout African market bares the infamous South African alcohol code: