If you are looking to buy rare bourbon online, the honest answer is that most stores cannot keep the bottles you want in stock. Del Mesa Liquor, a family-owned liquor store in San Diego, California, can — because allocated bourbon is the core of what we do. This page is our current rare shelf: the bottles actually in stock at the Rare & Top Shelf collection right now, updated as bottles land and sell. When a bottle shows a quantity here, it is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor today.
Just landed
- Booker's The Reserves 6 Year Old Rye Whiskey 2026 — $299.99 (1 in stock). Only the second rye Booker's has ever released — a 6-year-old Kentucky straight rye finished in French apple brandy casks and infused with cinnamon, bottled uncut at 125.1 proof. One bottle on the shelf.
This bottle earned its own story — read Booker's The Reserves 2026: The Rye Is Back for the full wassail tale.
The unicorn tier
- Weller Millenium Bourbon Whiskey — $6,499.99 (1 in stock). The crown of the Weller line — a blend of vintage wheated bourbons built as Buffalo Trace's ultimate Weller statement.
- Michter's 20 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey 2021 — $5,999.99 (1 in stock). Two decades in oak from one of Kentucky's most meticulous producers.
- Double Eagle Very Rare Bourbon Whiskey 2023 — $5,999.99 (1 in stock). The 20-year-old flagship of the Eagle Rare line, in its crystal decanter.
- Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey 2024 — $4,299.99 (1 in stock). The 2024 release of the most chased bottle in bourbon — 23 years old and increasingly hard to source at any price.
The collector tier
- William Larue Weller Straight Bourbon Whiskey 2025 — $1,899.99 (1 in stock). The wheated entry in the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, bottled uncut and unfiltered.
- Eagle Rare 17 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey 2024 — $1,699.99 (1 in stock). The 2024 Antique Collection release — 17 years old, bottled at 101 proof in honor of the original Eagle Rare.
- Parker's Heritage Collection 2016 10th Edition 24 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey — $1,499.99 (1 in stock). A 24-year-old bourbon from the beloved 10th edition of Heaven Hill's Parker's Heritage series.
- Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year 2021 — $1,399.99 (1 in stock). The 2021 bottling of the 10-year Van Winkle — the most approachable door into the family line.
Within reach
- Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey 2025 — $449.99 (1 in stock). The 2025 limited edition small batch, blended from Four Roses' ten recipes.
- Colonel EH Taylor Jr Cured Oak Bourbon Whiskey 2026 — $399.99 (4 in stock). A one-time Bottled-in-Bond release aged in cured oak barrels — the newest E.H. Taylor special edition.
- Rock Hill Farms Bourbon Whiskey — $299.99 (3 in stock). Buffalo Trace's single-barrel high-rye bourbon, named for the distillery's original Kentucky home.
- Elmer T Lee Single Barrel Bourbon — $179.99 (2 in stock). The single barrel named for the man who created Blanton's — a honey-barrel classic when you can find it.
- Weller Full Proof Bourbon Whiskey — $149.99 (4 in stock). Weller at full barrel proof, non-chill filtered — the wheated bourbon drinker's bottle.
How allocated bourbon works here
Allocated bottles arrive in ones and twos, not cases, and they sell in the order orders come in. What you see on this page is what the shelf actually holds — we do not list bottles we do not have. If a bottle you want shows sold out, check back: the rare shelf turns over constantly, and new arrivals go straight onto the Rare & Top Shelf collection and onto this blog.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I buy rare bourbon online?
Del Mesa Liquor stocks one of the deepest rare bourbon selections online — Pappy Van Winkle, the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, Parker's Heritage, Michter's and more — with live inventory on each product page and online ordering.
Are these bottles really in stock?
Yes. Every bottle listed here was in stock at Del Mesa Liquor when this post was published, with the quantity shown. Allocated stock moves fast, and the product page always shows the current count.
Does Del Mesa Liquor ship?
Orders are placed online at delmesaliquor.com and shipped where permitted — our Shipping & Return Policy page covers where we ship and how bottles are packed. The store is in San Diego, California, and local customers can shop the same shelf in person.
How do I hear about new allocated arrivals?
New bottles are added to the Rare & Top Shelf collection as they land, and we post the notable drops on this blog — like the Booker's The Reserves 2026 at the top of this page.
Buying for someone else? Bottles like these anchor our gift sets collection. Browse the full Rare & Top Shelf collection or start with this week's bottle — when it's gone, it's gone.