Aaron A. Wallace

While I am not to happy with the video quality of this it does convey a truth that bourbon hunters need to know, buying fancy high end bourbon is mostly about building relationships with the stores that sell it. You are not going to have consistent luck with just calling all the stores within one hundred miles of your location and hoping to get bottles held for you. There is a whole world of less rare seventy five, one hundred and, one hundred and fifty dollar bottles of bourbon that stores have a difficult time selling because they just are not as rare and desirable as the buffalo trace offerings, the crazy thing is these other bourbons are also very good and pretty helpful to have around when you do have those super rare bottles, so you don't drink them! Those bottles let the clerk know who is serious about having a collection of rare and interesting bottles of bourbon and who is just looking to flip bottles that have serious grey market premiums. This notion of the grey (or...

A quick overview of bourbon with the legal definition of what Straight Bourbon Whiskey is (two years in new charred oak cask) I also talk about the maximum proof that bourbon can be distilled to and that the mash bill must contain at least fifty one percent Corn. To be called Kentucky or Tennessee bourbon it has to be made in the geographically designated area and it has to conform to the traditional production method of the region, maple charcoal filtration in the case of Tennessee Bourbon Whiskey.