{"title":"Buffalo Trace Distillery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe distillery’s history begins in 1775, when Leestown was established on a bend of the Kentucky River at Frankfort — a crossing the buffalo had already chosen. Its name comes from those ancient pathways, the traces carved through the wilderness by migrating herds. Bourbon has been made on the same ground for more than two hundred years, which makes it, by its own account, the oldest continually operating distillery in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names on its rarest bottles are the men who built it. Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. invested a small fortune — some seventy thousand dollars — in a new distillery on the site in 1870. George T. Stagg, who had risen from whiskey salesman to lead the business, was honoured when the distillery was re-christened in his name in 1904. Albert B. Blanton raised its warehouses through the 1930s. The craft carried on through wars, floods, fires, tornadoes and even Prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2013 the distillery was designated a National Historic Landmark, a rare distinction for a working producer. What it releases under its own name is not a range but a series of annual gatherings — whiskeys drawn from barrels it sets aside as its oldest and most exceptional, bottled at or near barrel proof, without chill filtration, and assembled once each year in quantities that vanish on announcement.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-prohibition-collection","title":"The Prohibition Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach expression in the set resurrects a brand once bottled for medicinal purposes during the dry years — its label and character rebuilt from documents preserved in the distillery archive. The current, third edition gathers Henry Watterson, Kentucky River, John G. Carlisle, Walter B. Duffy and Cove Spring — five distinct styles, from straight rye at barrel strength to wheated bourbon, each at its own proof.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection changes entirely with every annual edition: different labels, different recipes, a different glimpse into the era. It is less a whiskey release than a work of institutional memory — the distillery telling the story of how bourbon survived its own prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buffalo Trace Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49094982140043,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0755\/4102\/0811\/files\/prohibition-pack.png?v=1789380373"},{"product_id":"the-antique-collection","title":"The Antique Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach whiskey in the set is bottled at barrel proof or near it, without chill filtration, from barrels the distillery sets aside as its oldest and most exceptional, resting in its historic warehouses. Six expressions make up the collection — George T. Stagg, William Larue Weller, Thomas H. Handy Sazerac, Eagle Rare 17 Year, Sazerac Rye 18 Year, and E.H. Taylor Bottled-in-Bond, added in 2025 as the first new constituent since 2006. Each honours a figure from the distillery’s past, and each changes character with every vintage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo hold the full collection from a single year is the collector’s ambition in American whiskey — the set assembled as the distillery intended, before the bottles scatter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buffalo Trace Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49363222790283,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0755\/4102\/0811\/files\/btac-six-transparent_635adf69-058a-435c-82dd-29b8f40f33eb.png?v=1789377653"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0755\/4102\/0811\/collections\/btac-marque.jpg?v=1786431374","url":"https:\/\/sazeracprivate.com\/collections\/the-antique-collection.oembed","provider":"Sazerac Private","version":"1.0","type":"link"}