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Background: Blanton's was the first single barrel bourbon and is
an excellent rye whiskey. It was released in 1984 and named after
Colonel Albert Bacon Blanton, a great Kentucky Bourbon pioneer, and a descendant
of Harrison Blanton who was the first to distill bourbon at the current site of
Buffalo Trace Distillery. Blanton was a bourbon aristocrat
and the great whiskey men of the 1800s. His calling card became the production of straight Kentucky
Bourbon and he believed blends to be inferior. The Colonel started as a an office boy at, what we
know today as Buffalo Trace Distillery, in 1879 and in 1901 at the age of twenty became superintendent,
then went on to be the president in 1921. The Distillery weathered many storms under his guidance,
including being the only working distillery in Kentucky during Prohibition (1920 to 1933) and had the
distillery back.
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Bourbon Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
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Bourbon Sub-type:
Single Barrel
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Proof: 93 proof
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Age: 10 years old
- Bottled and
distilled by: Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, KY - Age International
(The Sazerac Company, New Orleans, LA)
- Tasting notes: Powerful dry vanilla notes with hints of honey and strong caramel. Some late soft peppers arrive to spice things up.
- Taster:
wbj, 5/12/07
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