Brother’s Bond: How two immortal stars of The Vampire Diaries found peace with whiskey

Bottled-in-Bond, aged seven years. The designation refers to the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 — the first federal consumer protection law in the United States, introduced when whiskey was routinely counterfeited. One distillery, one distilling season, bottled at 100 proof. Their expression adheres to that discipline. “Malted rye is the special sauce,” Somerhalder says, before declaring it “one of the top five whiskies in the world right now,” citing New York International Spirits Competition, a trade-judged field known for severity.