{"product_id":"sazerac-18-year-old-kentucky-straight-rye-whiskey-fall-2025-bottling-from-the-buffalo-trace-antique-collection","title":"Sazerac 18 Year Old Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey, Fall 2025 Bottling From The Buffalo Trace Antique Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the Fall 2025 bottling of Sazerac 18, and the date is stamped on the front label by hand. The barrels chosen for it were aged at least eighteen years and five months. Ninety proof, which is low for the Antique Collection on purpose, because at eighteen years in Kentucky oak this whiskey does not need strength to make its point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy this one is the hard one to get\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSazerac 18 is the bottle people chase in the Antique Collection. Five expressions come out every autumn and this is the one that disappears first, because eighteen year old rye barely exists. Rye was a dead category for most of the time these barrels were sitting there. Nobody was laying it down in 2007 expecting a market for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe back label makes the claim itself: it is the only eighteen year old whiskey the Sazerac name goes on. That is not marketing padding. There is no second eighteen year old rye in the portfolio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat it tastes like\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrong body, mellow spice, dry sweetness that sits on the tongue rather than sliding off it. Eighteen years pulls the raw edge off rye completely and leaves leather, dried fruit, tobacco and old oak. It is a sipping whiskey and it would be a waste in a cocktail, even the one it is named after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe history on the label\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sazerac Coffee House opened at 13 Exchange Alley in New Orleans in 1850, and it was a saloon whatever the sign said. Antoine Amedie Peychaud added his bitters and a lump of sugar to rye whiskey there and the Sazerac became America's first cocktail. The 18 year old came back after a 111 year absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e45% alcohol by volume, 90 proof\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAged a minimum of 18 years and 5 months\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBottled Fall 2025, hand dated on the front label\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e750 mL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistilled, aged and bottled by Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuffalo Trace Antique Collection, Fall 2025 release\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOne bottle\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collector shops are asking $1,398 to $1,599 for this. We are under all of them. There is one of these and there is no reordering an allocated release, so when it goes the listing comes down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are choosing between this and our 2024, the 2024 is the scarcer of the two and priced accordingly. This one is the better value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomebody 21 or older has to sign for it. We pack heavy glass properly, so it shows up in one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buffalo Trace Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54668505678099,"sku":null,"price":1349.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.theboozeoutlet.com\/products\/sazerac-18-year-old-kentucky-straight-rye-whiskey-fall-2025-bottling-from-the-buffalo-trace-antique-collection","provider":"The Booze Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}