Benchmark Top Floor 750ml

Benchmark Top Floor is a Kentucky straight bourbon from the Benchmark line, produced at Buffalo Trace Distillery. "Top Floor" points to barrels selected from the higher levels of the rickhouse, where wider temperature swings push whiskey harder into the wood and typically yield a bolder, more oak-driven bourbon than lower-floor barrels. Benchmark is Buffalo Trace's value-tier bourbon brand, so this release brings that same accessible pricing with a bit more barrel character than the standard bottling. It suits bourbon drinkers who want Buffalo Trace's house style with extra oak intensity without paying single-barrel prices.

How to drink Benchmark Top Floor

Neat or on the rocks is the move if you want to feel the extra oak the upper-floor barrels bring. It also stands up well in an Old Fashioned where that heavier char won't get lost.

BourbonCharred new oak, upper-floor rickhouse · Kentucky