Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Distillery: Buffalo TraceStyle: 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.
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.
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!
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.
Color: Orange-Copper
Nose: Oranges, Iodine, Spice
Body: Thin, Wet
Palate: Bitter, Citrus, Salt
Finish: Long. Starts slowly and intensifies.
Citrusy. A satisfying whiskey.
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.