Blanton straight from the Barrel

Blanton’s Straight from the Barrel Dumped 2020

First introduced by then Ancient Age Distillery Master Distiller, Elmer T. Lee, Blanton’s was the first single barrel bourbon popularised in the US. Ancient Age was renamed the Buffalo Trace distillery by the Sazerac company in 1999.

Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon is normally a 6 to 8-year-old bourbon. It is aged in Warehouse H at Buffalo Trace, which is the only metal-clad warehouse at the distillery, commissioned for construction by Albert B. Blanton, after whom the whiskey is named. The warehouse was built shortly after prohibition and being metal, transfers heat quicker than brick warehouses, allowing for more rapid aging.

This is a 2020 bottling of the cask strength Straight from the Barrel range, dumped on 24th February, and matured in barrel #133.

Since 1999, each bottle of Blanton’s has one of 8 different stoppers, each depicting a horse and jockey at a different stage of finishing a race. The designs are all lettered so that a complete set laid out side by side will spell “BLANTON.

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