Woodford Reserve Double Oak Single Barrel?!

[MyOldKyDram]

Anyone see or hear about this? Odd, right? Wondering the source of the 1B, myself.

[cowdery]

It's all explained on the Woodford Reserve web site here.

[MyOldKyDram]

Kinda all explained. But I'm probably just dense. So it's all Versailles distillate in the 1B?

[cowdery]

Think about what 'double-oaked' means.

[MyOldKyDram]

Okay, it's official. I'm just dense. I thought both Woodfords were blends of itty Woodford and loads of BF. So I was just wondering which element this 1B was.

[cowdery]

My point is that double-oaked is just Distiller's Select that has been rebarreled, so a 'single barrel' of double oaked already has the mixing of the two distillates done before the second barreling. That's why they can do a Double Oaked single barrel but they only offer 'Personal Selection' for Distiller's Select buy-a-barrel customers. 'Personal selection' is whiskey from two different barrels that you select, although you don't know the source of the distillate. In theory, it could be two Woodford barrels.

Overall, the products are certainly more BF than Woodford, but the ratio varies by batch. It is not accurate to say "itty Woodford and loads of BF." Some batches contain more Woodford than BF. All batches contain some of each.

[MyOldKyDram]

See? Dense. Guess I never knew when they batched the Woodford and BF juices together. Prior to barreling, I see. Guess I was hoping this was all Versailles juice that had undergone the DO finish. Nope. Nothing to see here. Thanks!

[squire]

Those clever little marketing tykes, what won't they think of next.

[theglobalguy]

Those clever little marketing tykes, what won't they think of next.

Fancier labels that make you think the juice inside is highly superior to the regular. I still remember seeing the regular WR distiller select bottling on the tour and having to ask the gift shop worker 3x "so it's the same?". To her credit she explained it basically was.

[MyOldKyDram]

At least I'm (somewhat) smart enough to ask here first before rushing out and buying one!

[theglobalguy]

At least I'm (somewhat) smart enough to ask here first before rushing out and buying one!

(takes shoes off and puts keys back on hook while reading this thread...)

[MyOldKyDram]

But I would be dumb enough to buy it if it was all juice fom Versailles.

[squire]

I don't think they blend new whisky from the different distilleys before aging, rather the two barrels you choose could both be Woodford, or they could both be BF for that matter.

[squire]

If I were doing the choosing I would pick the barrel that had the best taste irrespective of where distilled.

[MyOldKyDram]

Well of course. I was just under the (apparently wrongful) impression that it was all blended Woodford/BF juice. So thought it would be swell to taste the Versailles stuff on its own. Turns out maybe I have?

[squire]

Sure you can, it's your money.

[mbroo5880i]

It is sort of misleading, though, since you are getting a single barrel of a previously batched whiskey.

[squire]

Well, you are just getting the one barrel.

[mark fleetwood]

My head hurts. Then again...

[cowdery]

All of the Master's Collection products are 100% Woodford juice.

With Distiller's Select, Woodford juice is barreled at Woodford and BF juice is barreled at BF. The BF goes into the warehouses at BF. Some of it becomes Old Forester and some of it is selected to become Woodford. The barrels selected for Woodford are then shipped to Woodford to finish aging there.

When the whiskey is ready to bottle, they select whiskey from four different days of distillation. We'll call those the barrel sets. The tasters simply select the four sets that best match the profile. They don't know the source. When the four sets are selected, the distiller makes sure both distilleries are represented. The barrel sets aren't all the same size, so they don't each represent 25% of the batch.

A bottling batch is 14,400 gallons, or about 110 barrels.

For Double Oaked, they do everything to select a bottling batch, as described above, but instead of bottling it they put it into new, charred-oak barrels for additional aging.

[squire]

Well that's easy enough.

[MyOldKyDram]

Thanks for the info Colonel it's much appreciated.

[jtgraves]

And this sort of knowledge is exactly why I love this place.

[squire]

No one can hide from the SB spotlight.

[Restaurant man]

They should have called it Woodford 46