Barrell Craft Spirits Bourbon Vantage

Rated #3 Whiskey of 2022 by Whisky Advocate. Double Gold Medal at the John Barleycorn Awards. Rated Best Cask Finish Whiskey by the Robb Report.

Vantage is a blend of straight bourbons finished in three distinct expressions of virgin oak: Mizunara, French, and toasted American oak casks. The result is a warm, elegant bourbon that highlights the many dimensions of oak.

The Barrel Craft Spirits team has drawn on years of experience with three-part barrel finishing, used previously in Armida, Dovetail, and Seagrass. With Vantage, those same techniques were applied to the oak itself, using different char levels, toast levels, and oak origins to create a multidimensional blend. Each component whiskey in Vantage is finished separately, then systematically combined according to a blending process fueled in equal parts by a scientific approach, experience, creativity, and experimentation. This process focuses on the wood characteristics and the specific flavor contributions that each cask contributes to the blend. The result is a masterfully blended, perfectly balanced representation of the harmonious synergy between bourbon and barrel. Selected Mizunara, French, and toasted American oak casks create multifaceted dimensions to this unique blend. The unique aspects of each wood and treatment are layered atop one another, precluding the singular taste of oak.

The nose is creamy, spicy and resinous and the palate is rich, textured, smooth and oily, soaked with barrel influence. Aromas and flavors of cinnamon, orange, ginger, tobacco, grilled pineapple, toast, fig, crème brûlée, nutmeg and a hint of coconut. 

57.94% ABV. Distilled in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky.