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| Bottling Name | BTEC Chardonnay Finish | | Bottled By | Buffalo Trace Distillery Frankfort,KY | | Type | Whiskey | | Alcohol content | 90 Proof | | Availability | US: No Longer Available Japan: Not Available Duty Free: Not Available Europe: Not Available | | Age | 6 | | Views (since 20080612) | 14421 | | Bottling Info | There are 2 variants of this whiskey which were produced. One is re-barreled in a used chardonnay cask after 6 years and was put in the barrel at 125.1 proof. The second re-barreled after 10 years and put in at 135.2 proof. Both variants aged in Warehouse I. Floor 1, Rick O, Row O next to one another. The rebarelled barrels were medium toast wine barrels by Tonnellerie Radoux. The final product of each variant is chill filtered and bottled at 90 proof on 2-22-2007.
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Review from spun_cookie (BourbonEnthusiast Review ID 1165, Created:20080623230707) | Purchased at: | Julio's | | Info on this bottle: | ~1/4 ounce pours | | Nose: | Definitely wine on the nose. Not sure I could guess chardonnay if I did not know. | | Taste: | Wine, very nice on the pallet. Sweet and now I can tell chardonnay | | Finish: | Oak first, the chardonnay with a semi-dry total finish. It is a long finish. Oak, sweet and hard wood flavors | | Overall: | Not sure if I would by this, but it is not bad
Best thus far... Surprising
I am not sure how this would have been if there was 1-2 ounces and time to let it grow at I drank it. |
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Review from MikeK (BourbonEnthusiast Review ID 768, Created:20070514150534) | Purchased at: | Atlas Liquors, Medford MA | | Purchased for: | $45 each | | Nose: | The younger expression is rich with aromas of juniper and grapes. The older one is much richer and darker with aromas of dark fruit, such as black cherry and prunes. | | Taste: | The younger has a light sweet flavor with white wine, caramel, brown sugar and fresh fruit. The older is much richer and adds in oak, choco-caramel, and sometimes burnt caramel. | | Finish: | The finish is medium length and tastes like Chardonnay. Sorry, that's all I get, wine finish. | | Overall: | |
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Review from TNbourbon (BourbonEnthusiast Review ID 743, Created:20070408171020) | Purchased at: | Red Dog Wine & Spirits, Franklin, TN | | Purchased for: | $65 each | | Info on this bottle: | As above | | Nose: | The young one is very delicate, with a lot of the wine influence present. There is an underpinning of Red Hots candies and spring flower garden. The older bottling identifies many more bourbon-oak-barrel notes, with rich butter-caramel displayed across a whiff of ripe, unprocessed white grapes (Chardonnay, I'd bet). | | Taste: | A grape-y first sense gives way in the 14-year whiskey to a quick flash of alcohol, with light orange and young leather rolling to the back of the tongue. The 18-year version skips the grape to present orange marmalade and treated leather, with a buttery texture that hints at caramel. | | Finish: | The younger finish is relatively short and dissipating, leaving only a mild sense of citrus peel that lingers. The older finish is slightly lengthened, but no less subtle, also persisting in sugared orange-peel candy freshness. | | Overall: | Seems to me that a used Chardonnay barrel is a sort of Fountain of Youth for bourbon/whiskey. Neither finished product, after 8 additional years in wine-wood, seems anywhere near the age it was before entry. These are light-bodied aparetif whiskeys with interesting flavors of medium complexity. |
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