Blood Oath Pact No. 7 is a one-time Kentucky straight bourbon blend that will never be made again the whole premise of master blender John Rempe’s Blood Oath series at Lux Row Distillers. For the 2021 pact, well-aged bourbons are married with a portion finished in Sauternes casks, the French dessert wine’s barrels lending white grape, apricot, and honeyed roundness to a caramel-and-oak core. Every pact in the series is bottled at 98.6 proof body temperature, a blender’s wink and sealed under a wax-dipped oath. Sweet, layered, and quietly extravagant, it suits after-dinner pours and bourbon drinkers with a Sauternes habit they haven’t discovered yet. When this pact sells through, that’s the end of it.