In your mouth it is dry and crisp with hints of spiciness, coming off almost more like a wine than bourbon with a distinct light licorice and cinnamon taste. This stuff has the classic, copper-colored bourbon look, with an aroma of brown sugar, dried fruits, apricot and molasses. The whiskey is bottled at 45% alcohol (90 proof). It is square with rounded corners and slightly indented sides. Lee comes in a bottle that looks like it came out of an episode of “Deadwood” or the movie “Tombstone”. Lee is still an ambassador for Buffalo Trace and has been the recipient of Malt Advocate magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as inducted into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame.Įlmer T. It was he who introduced the single barrel bourbon concept with the release of Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon. Stagg Distillery (what we currently know as Buffalo Trace) from 1969 to 1985. Lee the man was the plant manager for George T. Lee, there is the bourbon and the man.Įlmer T. Stagg Distillery, etc.) and has been owned by the Sazerac Company since 1992.Īs for Elmer T. It has gone through several iterations and name changes (such as O.F.C. Its first formal distillery was constructed by Harrison Blanton in 1812. Lee, one of the excellent but lesser known bourbons from Buffalo Trace, I can’t help but think of a boxing term “punching above one’s weight” and I mean that in the best possible way.īriefly, Buffalo Trace is the Kentucky distillery of bourbons such as Blanton’s, Eagle Rare, Buffalo Trace and my beloved Pappy Van Winkle. As I sit here writing up this review of Elmer T.
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