Blanton's Original Single Barrel 750ml

Blanton's Original Single Barrel is the bourbon that created the single-barrel category in 1984, and it still drinks like the argument for it. Every barrel comes out of Warehouse H at Buffalo Trace — the distillery's only metal-clad warehouse, where wider temperature swings push the whiskey deeper into the wood. Blanton's is bottled at 93 proof from a higher-rye mash bill, one barrel at a time, each bottle hand-labeled with its barrel number, rick, and dump date and topped with one of eight horse-and-jockey stoppers. Caramel and orange peel up front, rye spice through the middle, a clean oak finish that doesn't overstay. An allocation staple — it moves quickly when it hits shelves. Pour it neat for someone stepping up from wheated bourbons to something with more bite.

How to drink Blanton's

Neat is the standard, but a single large cube is fine if you want to soften the rye spice slightly — either way, save the stopper, collectors build entire sets from the eight horse poses.

Bourbon93 proof · Mash bill: high-rye bourbon mash bill (Mash Bill #2) · new charred American oak, Warehouse H · Kentucky, USA