Quick Profile
- Age
- NAS; uncut & non-chill filtered
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Kentucky
- Mash Bill
- Bourbon Mash Bill
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Fruity, Smoky & Earthy, and Herbal notes. Specific descriptors include dark fruit (fig, raisin, plum), leather, and tobacco leaf.
Annual master collection release; intense dark fruit, pipe tobacco, rich leather, dark cacao, and bold toasted wood.
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
Bourbon Mash Bill: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Malted Barley
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Woodford Reserve Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Aged in custom barrels crafted at the Brown-Forman Cooperage in Louisville, KY, featuring a heavy infrared toast followed by a #4 char.
- Warehouse Notes
- Traditional limestone-clad, steam-heated rickhouses that are cycled through temperature swings during winter months to accelerate oak extraction.
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