The Woodford Reserve Bourbon Holiday Limited Edition 2023 is a special release that celebrates the holiday season. The bottle features a unique design with a white raised texture evoking snow and smooth glossy gold foil that complements the rich color of the bourbon.

There are notes of honey and spice, leather, a touch of cocoa, a little smoke, toasty oak and vanilla cream with a hint of butterscotch. Palate: Thick and full. There are notes of espresso beans, winter spice, cereal sweetness, plenty of rye, ground ginger, almond oil, toasty oak and a little rum.

Woodford Reserve Rye uses a pre-prohibition style ratio of 53% rye in its mash bill to pay homage to history's original rye whiskeys, making spice and tobacco the dominant note among a sea of fruit, floral, and sweet aromatics, which yields a nice sweetness and overall balance.

The Five Sources of Flavor This includes water, grain, fermentation, distillation, and maturation. Each step is a crucial building block to create the final flavor profile for Woodford Reserve Bourbon.

A limited release, the Woodford Reserve Holiday Edition (circa 2022) is the same delicious bourbon you know and love, the difference is in the package. With a golden festive label, and a FULL LITER of this delicious heart of Kentucky Bourbon, this bottle is big enough for you to share.

CAPSULE REVIEW It is bottled in a handmade crystal decanter that took five days to create in Baccarat, France. As has been done in the scotch and cognac world for years, it's this piece of Baccarat glass that is very valuable thus driving up the price.

Julie Reiner says this bottling is a “great mixing bourbon” and “an easy sipping whiskey,” but she finds the finish slightly hot and prefers other whiskeys in Woodford's price range, such as Wild Turkey 101 and Buffalo Trace.

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Bourbon tastes strongly of vanilla, caramel, and oak, and depending on what option you choose, you'll find that some flavor notes are stronger than others. These flavors are imparted through the mash bill and the aging process of the whiskey, with different practices resulting in slightly different and varied flavors.

The Baccarat Edition The Baccarat Edition, previously only available to overseas travelers, is the most expensive Woodford Reserve ever released, with a suggested $2,000 price tag.

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Woodford Reserve is a great bourbon for its cost, as you'll be hard-pressed to find a better bottle in the $40 range.