Old Fitzgerald Releases Fourth VVS Expression

Bourbon

August 12, 2025

Old Fitzgerald VVS 2025 bottle

Old Fitzgerald announced a fourth VVS release within the Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Decanter Series: Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond 11-Year-Old VVS 2025 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.

The release marks the brand’s fourth VVS release in its history and follows the highly acclaimed VVS 2024 release.

Like its predecessor, the barrels for the latest VVS bottling were specially selected from the depths of Heaven Hill’s rickhouses by Master Distiller Conor O’Driscoll. While born of the same mashbill that helped make Old Fitzgerald famous – 68% corn, 20% wheat, 12% malted barley – O’Driscoll identifies casks with a certain profile to be considered exclusively for VVS releases.

“We always let our whiskey tell us when it’s ready, and our latest VVS release offered just the right amount of complexity and depth of flavor when we tasted it at 11 years old,” O’Driscoll said in a news release. “Not a day more of aging was needed for this Bourbon to fulfill the expectations that discerning Old Fitz fans have for a VVS Bourbon that carries its name. This one’s worth saving and savoring for special occasions.”

Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond 11-Year-Old VVS 2025 comes on the heels of the brand’s first nationwide release and signature expression: Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond 7-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. While the new signature expression gives Whiskey drinkers a more accessible way to enjoy Old Fitz on more occasions, the newest release stays true to VVS tradition in being offered in highly limited quantities, identifiable by its maroon label.

As with all Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Bourbons, each VVS label proudly displays its distilling and bottling season and adheres to the strict Bottled-in-Bond requirements that ensure quality, transparency and craftsmanship.

Now available exclusively at the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience in Bardstown, Ky and select Kentucky retailers for $169.99 per 750ml bottle.

Read more: Heaven Hill Announces Old Fitzgerald 7-Year Bottled in Bond

Old Fitzgerald’s line of legendary, award-winning wheated Bourbons dates back to the late 1800s. Inspired by John E. Fitzgerald, a treasury agent famous for thieving Whiskey from the barrels in his care. First trademarked in 1884, the brand’s Whiskey earned worldwide acclaim, through sales on luxury rail cars, steamships and private clubs. More than a century later in 1999, Heaven Hill acquired, along with the purchase of the Bernheim Distillery, the Old Fitzgerald brand and aging stocks of wheated Bourbon, ushering the brand into the 21st century. For more information, visit https://heavenhilldistillery.com/old-fitzgerald.php.

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