🥃🥃 Tasting Notes
Appearance:
Deep amber and mahogany with polished copper highlights, displaying the rich concentration expected from more than a decade of Kentucky maturation.
Aroma:
Mature and immediately expressive, opening with oak, vanilla, and cinnamon before revealing a richer layer of fruit.
Cherry gradually emerges alongside raisins and dates, creating a darker fruit profile balanced by seasoned oak and classic Wild Turkey spice.
Palate:
Robust, concentrated, spicy, and richly textured:
Dark caramel provides concentrated sweetness
Vanilla softens the barrel-proof intensity
Cherry contributes rich red-fruit character
Dark fruits provide additional depth
Orange peel introduces citrus brightness
Clove delivers warming spice
White pepper adds sharper spice
Cinnamon reinforces the classic bourbon profile
Mature oak provides substantial structure
Barrel char contributes depth
Rye spice balances the sweeter flavors
Leather and tobacco emerge as the bourbon develops
117.6 Proof provides impressive concentration
Non-chill filtration preserves its rich, substantial texture
Finish:
Long, warming, and persistent, beginning with honey and baking spice before gradually becoming darker and more mature.
Tobacco, seasoned oak, pepper, caramelized sweetness, and lingering barrel spice remain well after the sip, creating the robust finish expected from mature barrel-proof Russell's Reserve.
Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse Camp Nelson F demonstrates exactly what the Single Rickhouse Collection was created to explore.
Take mature Wild Turkey bourbon, isolate barrels from one specific warehouse, narrow the selection even further to the prized 4th and 5th floors, allow those barrels to mature for more than a decade, and bottle the resulting whiskey non-chill filtered at 117.6 barrel proof.
The result captures a specific place and moment within Wild Turkey's vast bourbon inventory.
For collectors of Russell's Reserve, Wild Turkey, barrel-proof bourbon, mature Kentucky whiskey, and the Single Rickhouse Collection, Camp Nelson F is particularly significant as the second chapter in the series and an ideal companion to the inaugural Camp Nelson C release.
Description
Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse Camp Nelson F Bourbon Whiskey (750mL) — 2023 Limited Release | 10+ Years | 117.6 Barrel Proof | Camp Nelson F
Explore the influence of one of Wild Turkey's most celebrated aging environments with Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse Camp Nelson F Bourbon Whiskey, the second release in the highly collectible Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse Collection.
Released in 2023, Camp Nelson F follows the inaugural Camp Nelson C bottling with another fascinating exploration of how one individual Kentucky rickhouse can shape mature bourbon.
For this release, Master Distiller Eddie Russell selected a small batch of barrels aged for more than 10 years, all coming exclusively from the coveted 4th and 5th floors of Camp Nelson F.
These floors represent what Russell's Reserve calls the “center cut”—the middle section of the seven-story rickhouse where temperature fluctuations provide a balance between the hotter upper floors and cooler conditions closer to the ground.
The resulting bourbon was bottled non-chill filtered at 117.6 barrel proof (58.8% ABV), preserving its full texture and concentrated combination of dark caramel, cherry, dried fruit, baking spice, tobacco, vanilla, and mature Kentucky oak.
🥃 Product Details
Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Brand: Russell's Reserve
Producer: Wild Turkey Distilling Co.
Master Distiller: Eddie Russell
Collection: Single Rickhouse Collection
Edition: Camp Nelson F
Series Position: Second Single Rickhouse Release
Release Year: 2023
Country: United States
State: Kentucky
Bottle Size: 750mL
Age: Over 10 Years
Rickhouse: Camp Nelson F
Rickhouse Floors: Floors 4 & 5
Rickhouse Position: Center Cut
Proof: 117.6 Barrel Proof
ABV: 58.8%
Filtration: Non-Chill Filtered
Mash Bill: 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Malted Barley
Barrels: New Charred American Oak
Release: Highly Limited Annual Release
Character: Cherry, Dark Caramel, Vanilla, Dried Fruit, Orange Peel, Clove, White Pepper, Honey, Tobacco & Mature Oak
🥃 The Second Single Rickhouse Release
Russell's Reserve launched its Single Rickhouse Collection to investigate a variable that is sometimes overlooked in bourbon:
Where did the barrel actually age?
Kentucky rickhouses aren't climate-controlled environments engineered to make every barrel mature identically.
Quite the opposite.
Temperature, airflow, humidity, elevation, warehouse construction, floor position, and surrounding geography can influence how bourbon interacts with its barrel over many years.
The Single Rickhouse Collection isolates those differences.
Instead of blending barrels from multiple warehouses to create consistency, each release is built entirely around whiskey matured inside one specific rickhouse.
Camp Nelson C launched the concept in 2022.
Camp Nelson F followed in 2023.
🥃 Why Camp Nelson F?
Built in the 1940s, Camp Nelson F is a seven-story rickhouse located near the Kentucky River.
Its location is particularly interesting.
Camp Nelson F sits relatively low on the property, where airflow and wind currents coming from the river circulate around the warehouse.
Those conditions have helped make Camp Nelson F a notable maturation site within Wild Turkey's whiskey program.
For the Single Rickhouse release, Eddie Russell went even further.
Rather than pulling whiskey indiscriminately from throughout the warehouse, he selected barrels from only the fourth and fifth floors.
These are part of the rickhouse's prized center cut.
🥃 The Center Cut
The Russell family has long emphasized barrel location when selecting whiskey.
In a traditional seven-story Kentucky rickhouse, conditions can vary considerably from floor to floor.
Upper floors generally experience greater heat.
Lower floors remain comparatively cool.
The middle floors provide a balance between those extremes.
Russell's Reserve considers approximately floors 3 through 5 the center cut or “sweet spot” of its seven-story rickhouses.
For Camp Nelson F, Eddie Russell narrowed the selection to floors 4 and 5.
The barrels remained there for more than a decade, slowly developing the combination of fruit, spice, sweetness, tobacco, and mature oak that defines this release.
🥃 Camp Nelson C vs. Camp Nelson F
For collectors building the Single Rickhouse series, tasting C and F side-by-side provides an opportunity to explore the concept behind the collection.
Camp Nelson C – 2022
- First Single Rickhouse release
- Camp Nelson C
- Floors 3 & 4
- Over 10 Years
- 112.4 Barrel Proof
- Non-Chill Filtered
- Camp Nelson C has since been dismantled
Camp Nelson F – 2023
- Second Single Rickhouse release
- Camp Nelson F
- Floors 4 & 5
- Over 10 Years
- 117.6 Barrel Proof
- Non-Chill Filtered
- More robust oak, spice and dark-fruit character
Both expressions showcase mature Russell's Reserve bourbon, but each captures whiskey shaped by a different aging environment.
⭐ Why You'll Love It
- Second release in the Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse Collection
- Official 2023 limited edition
- Selected by Master Distiller Eddie Russell
- Bourbon sourced entirely from one rickhouse
- Matured exclusively in Camp Nelson F
- Historic Camp Nelson maturation site
- Camp Nelson F was built in the 1940s
- Seven-story traditional Kentucky rickhouse
- Located near the Kentucky River
- Distinctive airflow and wind currents around the warehouse
- Barrels selected exclusively from floors 4 and 5
- Selected from the prized center cut
- Aged for more than 10 years
- Bottled at barrel proof
- Powerful 117.6 Proof
- 58.8% ABV
- Non-chill filtered
- Classic Wild Turkey mash bill
- Rich dark caramel character
- Cherry and dried fruit add mature sweetness
- Orange peel provides citrus brightness
- Clove and white pepper deliver substantial spice
- Vanilla balances the mature oak
- Honey adds sweetness through the finish
- Tobacco adds mature bourbon complexity
- Excellent comparison with Camp Nelson C
- Important early release in the Single Rickhouse Collection
- Highly desirable for Russell's Reserve and Wild Turkey collectors
🍽️ How to Enjoy
Camp Nelson F deserves to be explored slowly:
- Serve neat at room temperature
- Pour into a Glencairn or tulip-shaped bourbon glass
- Allow 10–15 minutes to open
- Experience the first sip at the full 117.6 Proof
- Add several drops of water to release additional fruit
- Allow the bourbon to rest again after adding water
- Compare directly with Camp Nelson C
- Taste alongside later Single Rickhouse releases
- Pair with grilled ribeye
- Excellent with smoked brisket
- Pair with barbecue
- Enjoy alongside toasted pecans
- Pair with aged cheddar or Gouda
- Excellent with dark chocolate
- Try alongside cherry or orange desserts
- Pair with pecan pie
- Ideal as the centerpiece of a serious Wild Turkey tasting
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