Buffalo Trace Just Bottled a 30-Year Bourbon, Here’s What It Tastes Like

The road to Frankfort is unremarkable. One of those American highways that weaves across state lines, seemingly endless, yet everyone is going somewhere. What is remarkable is my destination: the Buffalo Trace distillery.

Because Buffalo Trace isn’t just unveiling another whiskey. It is releasing the oldest age-stated bourbon it has ever bottled: Eagle Rare 30. 

Thirty years in new oak. On paper, that shouldn’t work. The climate is too aggressive, the wood too dominant, the losses too severe. Bourbon, as a rule, doesn’t do decades. And yet, here I am, drawn in by the promise of something that sits well beyond the usual limi...