The Buffalo Trace Antique Collection is the pinnacle of the distillery's yearly limited releases. How do these whiskeys measure up?
We are now deep in the middle of limited release whiskey season for 2023, and as the heady and hyped bottles flow around us, there are still those occasional releases that make everyone stop and take notice. Chief among them is of course Buffalo Trace’s annual release of its five-bottle Antique Collection series , which contain some of the most sought-after bourbon and rye whiskey products in the world.
will make finding them at that price an impossibility for almost all consumers. The most feasible way to taste these BTAC bottles is likely to be finding an pour at your local bar.One gets the sense that Sazerac 18 is the bottle in the antique collection that tends to evoke the most polarized opinions in drinkers. It’s a brand of contrasts from the jump: Traditionally the oldest in the Antique Collection–though not this year–but also the lowest in proof at the same time.
On the nose, the 2023 Thomas H. Handy is giving me strong herbal and resinous notes, along with more vinous character: Rosemary, juniper berries, caramel, rye and caraway that evokes the likes of aquavit, are joined by citrus and pine resin. On the palate, this is intensely peppery in a way that is still appealing, with lingering black peppery spiciness that also evokes some of the fruitiness of freshly cracked peppercorns.
On the palate, big molasses and brown sugar sweetness fuses with ginger and explosive oak spice. The sweetness here is very considerable, perhaps even more expressively sweet than the William Larue Weller. With that said, it is tempered a little bit by oak tannin, but this effect is only modest. As the flavor develops on the palate, flashes of dark fruit, vanilla and the classic Buffalo Trace cherry-type note become more prevalent, with a melange of baking spice notes and barrel char.
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