Old Fitzgerald 1972 8 Year Bottled In Bond

Distilled in 1972 this bottled in bond expression of Old Fitzgerald is crafted from a wheated mashbill pioneered by Pappy Van Winkle. Although the age statement on the bottle says 6 the tax stamp suggests this was distilled in 1972 and bottled in 1980, thus making this batch an 8 year old expression. This was distilled in the same year that the large company Norton Simon/Somerset Imports purchased Stitzel-Weller, a company that would change the original mashbill and shift to using a cheaper dry yeast that than the previously used wet jug yeast Pappy preferred. As such it's possible this batch is just within the cutoff to be made with the original mashbill and jug yeast, but no official confirmation was given as to when production changes were made/