Blade and Bow runs the last of its Stitzel-Weller stock through Port, Bordeaux, Cognac, and Moscatel casks for its new 12 Year Solera Reserve — a real test of the solera system the brand was built on.

A 500-year-old sherry-house trick where no barrel is ever fully emptied — and the same process a new Blade and Bow release is about to put to its toughest test yet.