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Quick Profile
- Age
- Aged 13 Years; Single Barrel Selection
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey, Single Barrel
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice, Smoky & Earthy, and Herbal notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, leather, and tobacco leaf.
World Spirits Competition Best Overall Bourbon; tropical stone fruits, milk chocolate, pipe tobacco, intense leather, and lingering pepper.
What Defines This Bottle
High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
Bottled at or near its barrel-entry strength, with no or minimal water added; concentrated flavor and higher perceived heat.
Bottled at, or close to, the proof it actually comes out of the barrel at -- little or no water added before bottling. That means more of the barrel's own character reaches the glass undiluted, at the cost of a proof that can run well past standard bottling strength. See Rickhouse Science for how barrel placement and time change what's actually in that barrel to begin with, and the Proof & Dilution Calculator for what cutting a barrel-proof pour down actually does to it.
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Whiskey drawn and bottled from one individual cask rather than mingled across many; a bottling method, not a mash bill or flavor profile of its own.
A bottling choice, not a production step upstream of it -- the whiskey ages and is distilled the same way as the distillery's other releases, then gets pulled from one specific barrel rather than blended with others before bottling. Bottle matches here come from a bottle's own name explicitly naming it a single barrel release, not an independent barrel-count field -- see this style's own Explore Bottles section for that caveat. See Rickhouse Science for how a barrel's own floor level and rick location can make one single barrel taste different from its neighbors.
Learn about Single Barrel →Age
This bottle carries a stated age of 13 years.
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Augusta Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (53-gallon barrels, Char #4 standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Built initial brand renown by sourcing and finishing exceptional vintage Kentucky bourbon barrels (notably high-proof, hyper-aged honey barrels) before completing its full estate distillation expansion.
Release Series
Buckner's Single Barrel
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