On the shelf at Great American Craft SpiritsOpen and pouring · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
- Proof
- 100
- Age
- 10 yr
- Style
- BourbonKentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- MSRP
- $79.99~$129.99 street
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“13-month cured-oak BiB — Mash Bill #1 aged 10yr in Warehouse C on extra-seasoned staves”
Tasting notes
- nose
- tobacco, dried fruit, vanilla, and toffee over seasoned oak — Warehouse C depth from long-cured staves
- palate
- BiB structure; vanilla-toffee with fig and dry oak tannin from 13-month air-dried white oak
- finish
- long, dry, layered oak that outlasts the sweetness
Mash bill
Full grain split not published.
Buffalo Trace Mash Bill #1 (low-rye) — corn, rye, and malted barley; exact percentages undisclosed. Same grain family as Small Batch and Buffalo Trace Bourbon; differentiation is entirely in the barrel: white-oak staves air-dried 13 months (more than twice the usual ~6-month cure) before coopering, so wood extraction — not mash invention — drives the expression.
- Cask
- New charred American oak from 13-month air-cured white oak staves
- Finish
- Extended stave cure (13 months air-dry) before barrel construction — wood-program expression, not a secondary finish
- Best served
- neat
Why it's craft
Sazerac/Buffalo Trace limited wood-program Bottled-in-Bond — craft interest is the extended stave-cure barrel experiment under the Taylor BiB banner, not indie DSP scale.
Buffalo Trace Distillery
Corporate-owned · Est. 1775 · Tours