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Quick Profile
- Age
- NAS (~8–9 Years)
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Mash Bill #1
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Sweet & Dessert-Like, Smoky & Earthy, and Spice notes. Specific descriptors include brown sugar, char / smoke, clove, and dried cherry.
Uncut and unfiltered powerhouse; intense cherry cola, rich brown sugar, dark chocolate, clove, and charred oak.
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.
Learn about High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey →Age
This bottle carries no single stated age. Federal labeling rules only require an age statement when a whiskey is younger than 4 years, so a bottle without one may be genuinely young or simply old enough that stating it became optional.
Does No Age Statement Mean It's Young? →Mash Bill (Grain Bill) The recipe of raw grains milled and cooked for fermentation, defined by its dominant grain -- corn for bourbon, rye for rye whiskey. Learn more
Mash Bill #1: Low Rye (≤10% rye, corn, malted barley)
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Buffalo Trace Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Water Source
- Kentucky limestone-filtered municipal aquifer
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (predominantly Char #4)
- Warehouse Notes
- Historic multi-story brick, stone, and iron-clad wood-frame rickhouses (including Warehouse C and Warehouse H)
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