There are notes of old leather, oak and red pepper flakes to give the whole dram a bit of heat. Palate: Red fruit preserves with traces of raisins and apples lead the way to a great tasting palate. The whole experience is amplified by loads of baking chocolate and cinnamon baked goods.
However, the nose isn’t offensively oaky or anything as it does lead way to some great sweet scents of brown sugar, red berries and baked goods. I can distinctly make out seasoned oak and tobacco leaf right away. Nose: The nose leads the charge with a decent amount of tannins. When I picked his brain about the trip, he told me that the Bulleit staff said that they had 10 different recipes to choose from but didn’t identify which barrel contained which recipe. Ray, the owner of the Rural Inn in Indianapolis, took a crew with him to Bulleit’s facility in Kentucky last December to pick out two barrels for his store. Liquor store owners looking to buy a single barrel had the option to travel to Bulleit’s facility or receive samples in the mail. With a black and orange label and an orange neck tag, these new single barrels were all bottled at 104 proof and were given an MSRP of $60. In the last quarter of 2019, Bulleit Bourbon began to pop up on the shelves of liquor stores around the nation with a new “Single Barrel” label. Whether or not it has been renewed has not been disclosed, but some sources say that Bulleit Bourbon is now a mix of Jim Beam, Barton and possibly still Four Roses. Fast Forward to 2013, and it was made public that the contract to distill for Bulleit would completed at the end of the year. Somewhat surprisingly was that it lasted through the chaotic years of multipe Four Roses ownership changes between 1999 to 2002.
Luckily, Diageo entered into a long term contract with Four Roses in order to keep the spigot turned on. But when Diageo went on a buying spree in the early 2000s, Bulleit was swept up in the mix. When the barrels at Ancient Age ran dry, they switched over to Four Roses bourbon which was also owned by Seagrams. Bulleit, as a company, was bought by the giant Seagrams Coorporation in the 90s and initially sourced their bourbon from Ancient Age Distillery (which is now known as Buffalo Trace). The history of Bulleit Frontier Bourbon is a history lesson into the world of sourcing bourbon and contract distilling itself.
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