Did Buffalo Trace break the rules of Bottled In Bond?

[VT Mike]

I was just doing a little research for a blog post on the CEHT Warehouse C Tornado surviving, and I realized that it's Bottled In Bond but doesn't meet one of the requirements. According to BT's press release, 93 barrels were "married into a single batch" and bottled late in 2011, but the press release states the the ages of those barrels ranged from 9 years 8 months to 11 year 11 months. Clearly, all of the liquor could not have come from a single distilling season, as is required by the Bottled In Bond regulations.

What a slap in the face to the man who was the driving force behind the Bottled In Bond legislation, to name a collection in his honor then label one of its releases as Bottled In Bond when it doesn't meet all of the requirements.

[tylermke]

Kris Comstock at BT confirmed that the Warehouse C Tornado bottlings had two separate barrel dumps from that season. Still BIB in that case.

[VT Mike]

Oh good, thanks for clearing that up. Too bad they had the wrong info in the press release.

[VT Mike]

I wonder if there's a way to tell which group a bottle comes from by the bottling code. Mine looks like it was bottled at 7:57 AM on the 322 day of 2011.

[p_elliott]

If you do a search on here you'll find this was discussed at length. It turned out someone at BT messed up the press release. I got this straight from the horses mouth at BT.

[TunnelTiger]

That happens at a lot of places, and daily in Washington dc