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Buffalo Trace

Buffalo Trace

Location: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
Region: Kentucky
Country: USA
Established: 1775
Website: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com

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Description

One of America's oldest (est. 1775 as George T. Stagg), famed for innovative bourbons like Eagle Rare and the flagship Buffalo Trace. It overlooks the Kentucky River and emphasizes small-batch artistry.

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Whiskeys from this Distillery

  • Ancient Age

    40% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Affordable, easy-drinking Buffalo Trace bourbon with roots dating back to the brand's Prohibition-era origins

  • Ancient Ancient Age 10 Star

    45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Higher-proof sibling to standard Ancient Age, distilled from Buffalo Trace's rye-recipe Mash Bill #2 (also used for Blanton's); once carried a 10-year age statement before switching to the current no-age-statement 'Star' designation

  • Benchmark Old No. 8

    40% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Nicknamed 'Baby Buffalo Trace' for sharing the distillery's low-rye mash bill, this bottom-shelf staple traces back to a 1960s Seagram's brand before Sazerac acquired it in 1989.

  • Blanton's Black Label

    40% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Japan-exclusive single barrel at 80 proof, aged 8 years minimum for refined smoothness

  • Blanton's Gold Edition

    51.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Higher proof single barrel with complex spicy rye and sherry notes, domestic annual release since 2020

  • Blanton's Takara Gold

    51.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Japan-exclusive single barrel, aged 8 years, higher proof with bold complexity

  • Blanton's Takara Red

    46.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Japan-exclusive single barrel, aged 8 years, similar to Original but with unique cask selection

  • Buffalo Trace Single Oak Rye Bourbon

    45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    The permanent recreation of Barrel #80, winner of Buffalo Trace's landmark Single Oak Project: a 1999 experiment that hand-selected 96 Missouri Ozark oak trees, split each into top and bottom sections to create 192 individual barrels, and varied seven factors (mash bill, barrel entry proof, stave seasoning, wood grain, char level, tree cut, and warehouse type) to isolate their effects on flavor. In 2011, consumers and expert tasters chose Barrel #80 (rye mash bill, 125-proof entry, 12-month seasoned average-grain staves, #4 char, bottom-half tree cut, aged 8 years on a concrete-floor warehouse) as the standout of all 192, and Buffalo Trace now recreates those exact conditions as an ongoing release.

  • Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Rye

    63% ABV
    Rye Whiskey Kentucky
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    Limited uncut and unfiltered barrel-proof rye from the Colonel E.H. Taylor line at Buffalo Trace, typically released at high proof (around 126).

  • Double Eagle Very Rare

    50.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Ultra-rare 20-year expression in crystal decanter, released annually

  • Eagle Rare

    45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Aged 10 years, smooth

  • Eagle Rare 17 Year Old

    50.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Part of Antique Collection, highly aged and limited annual release

  • E.H. Taylor Jr. Four Grain Straight Bourbon

    50% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    First introduced in 2017 and now established as an annual limited release, a bourbon built from corn, rye, wheat, and malted barley to echo the grains Colonel Taylor would have used in the 1800s.

  • George T. Stagg

    71.4% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Antique Collection barrel proof, uncut and unfiltered, annual release

  • Hancock's President's Reserve

    44.45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    An unheralded single-barrel bourbon introduced in 1991 sharing Buffalo Trace's high-rye mash bill number two with Blanton's and Elmer T. Lee, named for Leestown co-founder Hancock Lee.

  • Old Charter 8

    40% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    A budget bourbon brand dating to the 1800s that carried an eight-year age statement until it was quietly dropped in the mid-2010s, still findable on some store shelves despite Buffalo Trace's greater focus on Benchmark.

  • Sazerac 18 Year Old

    45% ABV
    Rye Whiskey Kentucky
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    The fifth and final member of the annual Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, a Kentucky straight rye aged 18 years, named for the New Orleans coffee house credited with inventing America's first cocktail.

  • Sazerac Rye

    45% ABV
    Rye Whiskey Kentucky
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    Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey embodies the rich tradition and history of New Orleans. Rye whiskey dates back to the 1800s, when saloons, often disguised as coffee houses, lined the streets of the city. At the Sazerac Coffee House on Royal Street, locals were served toddies made with rye whiskey and Peychaud’s Bitters. This iconic libation became known as the “Sazerac,” America’s first branded cocktail. This is the whiskey that started it all.

  • Stagg

    64.45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Barrel proof bourbon (formerly Stagg Jr.), bold and unfiltered batches

  • Stagg Jr.

    65.45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Barrel proof bourbon

  • Traveller Whiskey

    45% ABV
    Blended Whiskey Kentucky
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    For this first-of-its-kind collaboration from Buffalo Trace Distillery, Traveller brings together the collective artistry of 12-time Grammy Award-Winning musician Chris Stapleton and Buffalo Trace Distillery Master Distiller, Harlen Wheatley.

  • William Larue Weller

    64.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    Antique Collection barrel proof wheated bourbon, annual release

  • W. L. Weller

    45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Wheated bourbon, smooth profile

  • W. L. Weller 12 Year Old

    45% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
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    As a standout in the wheated bourbon family, W.L. Weller 12 Year is aged significantly longer than most, resulting in a bourbon that is smooth, balanced, and remarkably refined, with a rich deep bronze hue.

  • W. L. Weller C.Y.P.B.

    47.5% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Craft Your Perfect Bourbon, crowd-sourced specs, limited

  • W.L. Weller Full Proof

    57% ABV
    Bourbon Kentucky
    No Rating

    Part of Buffalo Trace's wheated bourbon family that also produces the Van Winkle line, bottled at 114 proof, precisely matching the proof at which the spirit entered the barrel, so no water is added back after maturation; non-chill filtered. First released in 2019 and now an annual expression, distinct from the vintage-dated, truly cask-strength William Larue Weller in the Antique Collection.