Blantons Straight From the Barrel 750 ml

Blanton's Straight From the Barrel delivers single barrel bourbon at full cask strength, poured exactly as it leaves the barrel with no cutting and no chill filtering. Every bottle comes from one barrel and carries that barrel's own proof, so the strength runs high and shifts from bottle to bottle. Blanton's draws on Buffalo Trace Mash Bill #2, the higher-rye recipe behind the original single barrel. The nose leans into dark chocolate, caramel, and toasted walnut; the palate turns to warm vanilla, oak, and a honeyed, spicy heat. Built mainly for export markets, it moves quickly on the rare occasions it reaches US shelves. Add a few drops of water to open it, then drink it neat and slow.

How to drink Blanton's Straight From the Barrel

Pour it into a tulip or Glencairn glass to catch the aromatics before you taste, and don't expect the next bottle to match this one exactly since each comes from a single barrel. It's a pour worth sharing with whoever's around when a bottle this scarce turns up.

BourbonMash bill: Buffalo Trace Mash Bill #2 (high rye) · New charred American oak · Kentucky