buffalo trace kentucky straight bourbon whiskey
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
