Orphan Barrel Copper Tongue 16 Year Old Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Quick Profile
- Proof
- 89.8 Proof (44.9% ABV)
- ABV
- 44.9%
- Age
- 16 Years Old
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Tennessee
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Nutty, Oak & Wood, and Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include almond, cedar, and toffee.
Candied orange, cedar, almond, toffee, floral notes, and mellow mature 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 a stated age of 16 years.
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Co. -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Water Source
- Not applicable; Orphan Barrel does not operate its own production distillery.
- Cooperage
- Not applicable; each release retains the cooperage of its own undisclosed originating distillery.
- Warehouse Notes
- Organized by Diageo in 2013 and publicly launched February 11, 2014 as a venture to locate and release rare, long-forgotten barrels of fully-aged whiskey discovered in warehouses in the United States and abroad, headquartered and bottled in Tullahoma, TN. Every release in this catalog is attributed to Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Co. itself, not to the individual, often-undisclosed distillery that originally produced the whiskey inside the bottle, matching this catalog's own US-distillery-only policy.
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