Buffalo Trace Distillery is resurfacing five historic American whiskey brands for the third installment of its Prohibition Collection. This year’s edition features a lineup of five distinct whiskeys, including a high-proof rye, an uncut bourbon, and a blended whiskey, each representing a now-defunct brand that operated during Prohibition. The five whiskeys represent brands — Cove Spring, Henry Watterson, John G. Carlisle, Kentucky River, and Walter B. Duffy — produced under the direction of Albert B. Blanton at the George T. Stagg Distillery, which was granted one of six federal licenses to legally produce whiskey for medicinal purposes during Prohibition.
The lineup includes three bourbons. Cove Spring, a tribute to the water source that fueled the distillery in its early stages, is an uncut, 120.2-proof bourbon bringing notes of red cherry, coconut, and oak, according to a press release. John G. Carlisle, honoring a former Congressman who helped construct the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, is a bourbon bottled at 100 proof with tasting notes of toasted nuts, orchard fruit, and baking spices. Walter B. Duffy, an homage to the distiller who appointed Albert B. Blanton, is a 107-proof blend of 10- and 14-year-old bourbons with a palate of graham crackers, toasted corn, and dried fruit.
