Tag: Buffalo Trace

New Orleans comes to the Bluegrass

I celebrated the solstice in style last Thursday with a James Beard Foundation-sanctioned dinner in Lexington prepared by Chef Jonathan Lundy of Lexington’s Jonathan at Gratz Park and Chef Darin Nesbit of the Bourbon House in New Orleans. Each of the five…

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E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof

Col. E.H. Taylor Jr. Barrel Proof 7 years old; 134.5 proof This is the fourth release in the Col. E.H. Taylor Jr. Bourbon Collection, named for the founder of what is today Buffalo Trace Distillery. The uncut, unfiltered rye-recipe small…

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One sip closer to completion

I finished off a bottle of Blanton’s the other night, which means I can now go shopping for a different letter. In case you aren’t familiar with this stroke of marketing genius, each Blanton’s stopper is stamped with a tiny…

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Join the Single Oak Project

They sure are a curious bunch over at Buffalo Trace Distillery. At just about any time, master distiller Harlen Wheatley and his crew have about 1,000 barrels filled with experimental concoctions, all designed to broaden their knowledge of bourbon production…

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Some Buffalo Love from Buffalo Trace

My Valentine and I got a head start on today’s holiday by attending the first ever “Buffalo Love” dinner at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., on Feb. 11. This elegant dinner, catered by Dupree Catering in Lexington, paired six courses with…

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A new ‘twist’ on the E.H. Taylor line

In the spring of 2006, a severe storm ripped through the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., heavily damaging two warehouses used for aging bourbon. Warehouse B was empty at the time, but Warehouse C, which was built in 1881 by…

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Bourbon in the house

As a bourbon blogger, I feel it’s my duty to introduce my friends to brands they might not have tried yet. So last weekend, my husband and I held a “Bourbon and BBQ” soiree. We served barbecue because A) its…

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A Late Night with David Chang

David Chang, owner and chef of Momofuku restaurants (the name means “Lucky Peach”), recently gave a slightly inebriated bourbon tutorial on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” He noted that bourbon production is governed by several rules and regulations. “It has to be in new…

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Rock Hill Farms

To celebrate Repeal Day, I enjoyed a glass of Buffalo Trace’s Rock Hill Farms Single Cask Bourbon. Michael Jackson (the dead beer/whisky critic, not the dead singer/dancer) once recommended trying Rock Hill with a double chocolate-chip cookie or rocky road…

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Buffalo Trace Antique Ryes

Let’s continue the tasting of the Buffalo Trace 2011 Antique Collection with the two rye whiskeys: Thomas H. Handy Sazerac and Sazerac 18 Year Old. Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey 6 years old; 128.6 proof Aroma: Vanilla, hints…

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