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107 Liquor Releases Maker’s Mark “The Curveball” at $79.99
107 Liquor releases The Curveball, a 109-proof Maker’s Mark Private Selection at $79.99 plus tax, led by six Roasted French Mendiant finishing staves.
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Last Updated on October 14, 2026 by Justin Jones
107 Liquor · Sherwood, Arkansas
The Curveball
107 Liquor has released a new Maker’s Mark Private Selection called The Curveball. The 109-proof bourbon is priced at $79.99 plus tax.
$79.99
plus tax
109
Proof
54.5%
Alcohol by volume
750 mL
Bottle size
A custom Maker’s Mark finish
Ten staves. Three profiles.
The Curveball’s finishing recipe puts Roasted French Mendiant up front: six of the ten oak staves are Mendiant, joined by three Maker’s Mark 46 staves and one Toasted French Spice stave. Baked American Pure 2 and Seared French Cuvée are both left out.
The label identifies it as Kentucky straight bourbon whisky barrel finished with ten oak staves. Its 54.50% ABV works out to 109 proof, with no age statement visible on the supplied front label.
Maker’s Mark’s Private Selection program starts with mature, cask-strength bourbon. Retailers choose a combination of finishing staves, and the whisky spends an additional nine weeks in the distillery’s limestone cellar. The wood recipe gives each selection its own direction.
Inside the recipe
The Curveball stave table
The five stave options use different oak, cuts and heat treatments to influence the bourbon. The counts below come from the bottle label; the flavor descriptions explain the stave profiles.
3 · 46
6 · Mendiant
1
3 Maker’s Mark 46 · 6 Roasted French Mendiant · 1 Toasted French Spice
| Stave type | Count | Oak & treatment | Associated flavor profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baked American Pure 2 | 0 | American oak; baked low and slow | Vanilla, brown sugar, caramel and gentle spice |
| Seared French Cuvée | 0 | Ridge-cut French oak; infrared seared | Toasted oak and caramel |
| Maker’s Mark 46 | 3 | Seared French oak | Vanilla, caramel, baking spice and dried fruit |
| Roasted French Mendiant | 6 | Classic-cut French oak; cooked low and slow | Milk chocolate, buttery nuts, coffee and dried dark fruit |
| Toasted French Spice | 1 | French oak; toasted at high and low temperatures | Warming spice and smoky accents |
These are general stave characteristics, not tasting notes from an ArkansasLiquor.com review of The Curveball. Stave counts describe the wood recipe; they do not translate directly into percentages of flavor.
Why Mendiant matters
Six staves point toward chocolate, nuts and coffee.
Roasted French Mendiant takes its name from a French chocolate confection topped with nuts and dried fruit. Maker’s Mark describes the stave as bringing milk chocolate, buttery nut, coffee and dried dark-fruit notes.
Introduced in 2021, Mendiant replaced Roasted French Mocha for new Private Selection recipes. Its classic-cut French oak is cooked low and slow, giving it a different profile from the older Mocha option.
With six Mendiant staves in The Curveball, a chocolate-and-nut direction is a reasonable expectation, with vanilla and baking spice from the other profiles. That is a reading of the recipe, rather than a confirmed description of how this bourbon tastes.
The release
Find The Curveball at 107 Liquor
The announced price is $79.99 plus tax for a 750 mL bottle. Contact 107 Liquor for current stock and any purchase limits before making a trip.
107 Liquor250 W. Kiehl Avenue
Sherwood, AR 72120
The bottle photograph shows a numbered label ending in “/ 246.” That is not a live inventory count; the total release quantity has not been independently confirmed.
Sources & further reading
About this announcement
Release name, proof, bottle size and stave counts were transcribed from the supplied bottle photograph. The $79.99 plus-tax price was provided with the release information.
- Maker’s Mark Private Selection — the producer’s finishing process.
- Maker’s Mark 46 — French oak finishing and flavor background.
- Maker’s Mark’s Mendiant announcement — producer press release reproduced by Breaking Bourbon, February 18, 2021.
- Binny’s Private Select overview — background on the original stave treatments.
- Berg Hospitality’s selection visit — Mendiant and other stave preparation details.
Justin Jones
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