Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection 19 Year Giant French Oak Barrel

About this bottle

Buffalo Trace released this whiskey in 2012 as one of two bottles from the 11th batch of its Experimental Collection, focusing on enormous French oak barrels. Distilled in January 1993 using BT Rye Mash #2 (a bourbon mash bill), this whiskey was aged in a used French oak barrel. The barrel, measuring 135 gallons, was considered "giant" compared to typical American 53-gallon barrels and had previously contained an unspecified wine. The barrel received a #3 char. After nineteen years and five months, with 34.8% evaporation, the barrel was emptied and bottled in June 2012 at 45% ABV.