Description
Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection Warehouse Floors Floor #1 is a Bourbon from Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. This 2014 release was distilled in 2001 from Buffalo Trace’s Mash Recipe #1 and aged for 12 years and 3 months on the first floor (bottom) of Warehouse K, a nine-story brick warehouse chosen for the variety of aging conditions it provides.
The Experimental Collection is Buffalo Trace’s long-running program of one-off whiskeys exploring unique mash bills, woods, barrel toasts, and aging conditions, with more than 2,000 experimental barrels aging in the distillery’s warehouses. The Warehouse Floors Experiment held every variable constant except aging position – the same distillate from the same date was split across floors one, five, and nine of Warehouse K to isolate how altitude inside a rickhouse changes a bourbon’s character. Each floor was bottled and released as a separate label so drinkers could taste the variable directly.
On the nose, it shows caramel, honeyed vanilla, and ripe orchard fruit. The palate brings soft sweetness, caramel, vanilla, and gentle fruit, and the finish carries a soft, sweet close with very mild oak.
Floor #1 produced the most delicate of the three Warehouse K experiments, with subtle sweetness and very mild oak from the cooler, more stable bottom-floor conditions. It drinks well neat or over a single large cube.
- Size: 375ml
- Proof: 90 (45% ABV)
- Age: 12 Year, 3 Months
- Origin: Frankfort, Kentucky
- Distillery: Buffalo Trace Distillery
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