Where is blantons made

The horse and jockey atop the bottle stoppers are now a recognized trademark of Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon. There are eight different stopper designs, each in a different pose and stride. Your web browser Internet Explorer is out of date. Please use a modern browser for the best experience on this site.

The standard for single barrel bourbon. Learn More. Blanton's Original. Tasting Notes A deep, satisfying nose of nutmeg and spices. Straight From the Barrel. Only available in select international markets. Tasting Notes Notes of dark chocolate and caramel on the nose with undertones of walnut and hazelnut.

Gold Edition. Tasting Notes Hints of spicy rye and tobacco on the nose, followed by caramel and honey, dark fruit and citrus notes. Colonel Blanton A Kentucky gentleman and bourbon aristocrat in the mold of E.

Awards Blanton's has won over 50 awards since Follow Blanton's. Southern Comfort Whiskey. Southern Comfort. Age International, as Falk and Baranaskas styled their new company, saw the opportunity to introduce a premium product, for which they tapped their master distiller Elmer T. The distiller looked to the memory of his late mentor, Col. Albert Blanton, former manager of the George T. Its packaging alone set it apart: a specially-made grenade-shaped vessel with a pewter bottle topper molded into the shape of a jockey and thoroughbred.

Stagg or Weller or Elmer T. The brand has other, dorkier allures. Whereas wheated whiskeys tend to be softer, a kick of rye in a mash bill usually produces a bit more in the way of fruit and spice, flavors that play nicely with caramel and char. Yes, there was a Blanton — Albert Bacon Blanton. Lee named his game-changing single-barrel after Blanton, a man who had worked his way up from year-old desk clerk at what would become Buffalo Trace Distillery to distillery president from to Naming the single-barrel for Blanton is a tribute: Back in the day, Blanton would put aside what he considered to be the best bourbon, which came from barrels aged in the center of the all-metal Warehouse H see below.

Yes, that leaves a lot of wiggle room for creative interpretation. While bourbon in general is blended by brand and distillery to create a desired flavor profile, a single-barrel bourbon categorically rejects blending. Instead, we embrace whatever inimitable magic the aging process has done to the whiskey inside one particular barrel.

Similarly, Japanese youth wanted something different than the Scotch their elders were drinking, so bourbon it was. Reverse psychology at play, Americans eventually envied the Japanese bourbon trend. Most whiskies are machine-dumped, which means the barrel contents are mechanically overturned.