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    Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 86
    Distillery
    Buffalo Trace
    Style
    Bourbon or Tennessee
    Release
    Unspecified
    Age
    Unspecified
    Alcohol
    45% abv.
    Region
    United States, Kentucky
    Bottled For
    Distillery

    As one of the oldest distilling sites in Nort America, Buffalo Trace remains true to the quality standarts established by our ancestors. We invite you to sample a traditionally handcrafted bourbon that harkens back to the days of our ancestors. Smooth, confident, fiercely independent - these are the tastes of Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Enjoy.

    review by coloradodram

    88
    Color
    Deep amber.
    Nose
    Carmelized honey and sugar - kind of like roasted marshmallow on graham cracker. Bitter limeskin oil on lightly sapped oak wood. Very pleasant to nose.
    Body
    Medium-full bodied, less oily on the tongue than the legs on the glass indicate.
    Palate
    Confirms the nose. Balanced - I can't tell a prevalence of rye, barley, or corn (unlike some Bourbons...including Buffalo Trace's very own 10 year Eagle Rare single barrel).
    Finish
    Confirms the nose and palate but inverted (first comes the bitter limeskin oak sap, then follows the charred honeycomb). Very smooth and forgiving, much like a blended scotch. Medium burn, long-lasting.

    This is an excellent bourbon - great nose, fantastic sipping, nice finish, and a great value. Every cabinet has certain distilled spirits that always seem to find their way onto the shelf. I think I have found my bourbon in Buffalo Trace - it's exceptional.

    review by buck

    82
    Color
    Heavy Brown with Butterscoth Hue
    Nose
    Dry Smoke and Pepper
    Body
    Medium
    Palate
    Peppery spice, hint of Toffee or Butterscotch at the end and big smoke flavor
    Finish
    Warm and nice

    This is an outstanding everyday bottle but I would prefer a more smoother taste and less spice for special occasions, Can't beat the price. Goes well on a Wednesday after work to help finish off the week but not a weekend bottle for me.

    review by mishima

    90
    Color
    Heavy oaken brown in the bottle, lighter, buttescotch yellow in the glass
    Nose
    The Jungian archtype of Bourbon measured out in 30 ml: The first rising sweetness, corn syrup thick till it is almost maple. Underneath the wood plays, american oak and Kentucky summer, a shy spiciness that imitates nuts, burnt toffee, cinnamon. It is the long wafting must of a plantation home, the fetid aroma of nostlagia and decay.
    Body
    An easy medium, swaggers without pomposity. Slick but not oily.
    Palate
    It is not the saccahrine swill the nose sometimes suggests, but fufills the undercurrents, the elegant, wonderfully restrained wood dominates instead, allowing the nebulous spices a word in here and there.
    Finish
    It is not until after you swallow that you get any sense of alcohol from this whiskey. But like a lingering resentment it comes all at the end, fierce and brutal - a heaving fire that smolders down to a tingle that will slowly fade, leaving a velvet thickness in your throat. And a touch of dark chocolate my senses discovered long before but my mind could not evoke.

    Buffalo Trace is polished, elegant enough for a cigar and smoking jacket scene, without losing the raw frontieer spirit credentials that the word Bourbon evokes. It is a quiet unassuming bottle, affecting no pretensions, but its plummable depths, and easy swilling straight from the botttle attitude marry together the two worlds of whisky without compromise.

    review by mp

    93
    Color
    Toffee/Caramel
    Nose
    Orange, Heavy Smoke
    Body
    Full bodied, and very smooth
    Finish
    Long finish, interesting and strong till the very end.

    This is an amazing Bourbon, and well worth the price. The flavours are very well balanced, and interesting everytime!

    review by saul

    80
    Color
    Red
    Nose
    Phenol, Something sweet, Sherry? Oak
    Body
    Heavy, Dryer
    Palate
    Oak, Caramely, Sugar, Alcohol
    Finish
    Long and warming. Not unpleaseant at all.

    I really enjoy this whiskey. I would drink it again.

    review by fyoder

    82
    Color
    Orange-Copper
    Nose
    Oranges, Iodine, Spice
    Body
    Thin, Wet
    Palate
    Bitter, Citrus, Salt
    Finish
    Long. Starts slowly and intensifies.

    Citrusy. A satisfying whiskey.

    review by colin

    86
    Color
    Toffee
    Nose
    Pepper, Toffee, Roasted Marshmellows, Candy Apple
    Body
    Medium Body, Thin texture, Hot
    Palate
    Pepper, Candy Apple, Salty Toffee, Burnt Sugar
    Finish
    Pepper, Hot & Spicy, Long

    This whiskey has grown on me and taught me to appreciate a good bourbon. It's very fun and interesting, and has depth and structure.