John E Fitzgerald Very Special Reserve is a Heaven Hill special release that’s made from 12 barrels of Stitzel Weller distilled whiskey HH acquired when they bought the Old Fitzgerald brand back in 1999. These particular barrels were filled in 1992, resided in the SW warehouses for the first 7 years of their life and then transferred to the Heaven Hill warehouses after the acquisition where they sat till 2013 when they were dumped into steel tanks to keep them from maturing any further. For more info on the background of this whiskey we turn to the packaging: