Batch 15 had a sweeter palate with more brown sugar notes but nowhere near the amount of oak this one has. The sweetness is a bit more toned down than it normally would have been but the fruits (cherry and peach) are just as dense. Palate: Even upon first sip, I can tell that this is oakier and has more tannins than previous Stagg Jr releases. Notes of chocolate and vanilla also stand out as being particularly powerful. For the first time ever in a Stagg Jr batch, I’m detecting more baked apple notes than I am of cherries. Nose: Molasses cookies with cinnamon, cardamom and brown butter give initial sweet and spicy notes. ![]() Is that really as far-fetched as it sounds? Maybe the tasting notes will give us an answer to our questions. So they decided to blend (at least some of) them into the upcoming releases of Stagg Jr. The thing is that Buffalo Trace probably knew that these 15-year-old barrels wouldn’t see the light of day in a GTS bottle back in January 2021. So what became of the GTS barrels that didn’t meet the high standards to get put into the 2021 batch of GTS? Would Buffalo Trace let them age another year to see if they get better? It just reached 15 years old and this has given his tenure as Master Distiller a giant black eye.īuffalo Trace fanboy’s heads will explode if they heard that theory out loud, but all I can say is that the tasters and blenders and barrel specialists at Buffalo Trace must have really low moral right now knowing that such an important release was cancelled. This would have been the first year that GTS would have been 100% his own creation. Is it true that Harlen Wheatley isn’t all he is cracked up to be at making bourbon? While that theory seems preposterous to me, there’s currently no better one out there. No longer will Stagg Jr have to remain artificially inexpensive to compensate for GTS’s already low retail price. In their place would be a new Stagg product that would combine young and old barrels but would likely be much higher in price. ![]() The only logical theory that many people arrived at was that Buffalo Trace was getting rid of both the GTS label from BTAC and the Stagg Jr. A second whammy hit the community shortly thereafter where Buffalo Trace had filed a new label to the TTB that showed what appeared to be the next generation of Stagg Jr labels without the “Jr.” on it. Panic ensued and enthusiasts and taters alike bum-rushed their local stores to buy up those bottles at any price they were marked at. George T Stagg was released with 4 other very limited and rare bottles as part of the BTAC release. Stagg Releaseīut in late 2021 Buffalo Trace announced the unthinkable they were not going to release a 2021 version of the popular George T. All other barrel proof options, from Buffalo Trace Antique Collection releases to EH Taylor Barrel Proof, had become too rare and too expensive for the average person to be able to obtain. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.įor years now, the biannual release of Stagg Jr presented many enthusiasts with their only chance to grab up a barrel proof version of a Buffalo Trace whiskey.
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