Tasting notes

nose

Brown sugar, toasted marshmallow and ripe red fruit, with cream, browned butter and leather

palate

Caramel, vanilla cream and allspice, with toasted oak, dark fruit and leather, drying on tannin

finish

Medium; toasted oak, blackberry, plum, apricot and orange zest, ending on burnt marshmallow and oak

Mash bill

70% Kentucky-grown corn, 21% rye, 9% malted barley, the same high-rye recipe as Green River's other bourbons. The distillery says the toasted oak adds wood sugars and spice on top of it.

Awards

• Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2026

Why it's craft

The whiskey aged eight years in the distillery's clay-tile rickhouses, then spent six months in new American oak barrels with a light char and medium toast from Independent Stave Company. It is the first Distillery Select release and is sold only directly by the distillery, in 375 ml bottles. The 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition gave it Double Gold. Green River was licensed in 1885, and Bardstown Bourbon Co. has owned it since 2022.