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Whiskey Quickie: 2021 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (BTAC) Review

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4.9866 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this special edition of Whiskey Quickie by Bourbon Pursuit, we review the 2021 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. The collection includes: Eagle Rare 17 Year, William Larue Weller, Thomas H. Handy, and Sazerac Rye 18 Year. Each bottle has a suggested retail price of $99. What's our favorite this year? Watch to find out. Cheers! Whiskey Quickie is brought to you by Barrell Bourbon. Learn more at BarrellBourbon.com. DISCLAIMER: The whiskey in this review was provided to us at no cost courtesy of the spirit producer. We were not compensated by the spirit producer for this review. This is our honest opinion based on what we tasted. Please drink responsibly.

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3,000 tickets are available charitable gaming license or g000000 2703 welcome everybody to one of the most highly anticipated whiskey quickies of the year

0:44.5

where we take a look at the 2021 release of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection.

0:51.2

This is the World Series of Bourbon.

0:53.2

It really is.

0:54.1

It makes you like appreciate all that

0:57.0

bourbon media work you do. It's just to get these samples. It comes in the mail and you're like,

1:03.0

we made it. It's finally here. Yes. But the big news is, we'll be able to bring them out one by one here,

1:08.4

but I'm sure you've heard by now, and that is the fact that there is no George T. Stagg this year,

1:14.9

because the 15-year-old barrels did not meet the distiller's requirement for taste standards,

1:19.6

according to what they had said.

1:21.2

So there's various measures of quality that go into Buffalo Traces Bourbon,

1:24.8

everything from checking turbidity and testing samples using

1:28.2

gas chromatography, and but the most discriminating taste test of all is, of course, the human palate.

1:36.0

So they've gone, everybody that has been there, they've gone through all kinds of sensory training

1:40.1

analysis, and they said that if one taster disagrees the barrel is sent back to be aged longer

1:45.8

and I know that we've had a chance to talk to some folks at Buffalo Trace we understand the

1:51.2

quality and the integrity of the people that are there as well so if they didn't think it was that

1:55.7

good we should probably just go ahead and say you're probably right right. Yeah. Maybe saved us a little bit.

2:01.7

Yeah, it's better to hold it back and let it keep getting better. There's such a huge bar with it.

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