For years, Blanton’s Gold Edition was the bourbon Americans flew overseas to find. This 700ml bottling is the export format of that long-running international release a single barrel bourbon from Buffalo Trace Distillery, bottled at 103 proof from the high-rye mash bill and pulled from Warehouse H, where these barrels age. Gold sits between the Original and Straight From The Barrel: more grip than the 93-proof standard, still polished enough to drink without ceremony. The official profile runs spicy rye and tobacco into caramel, honey, and charred oak, and the finish goes long. It is genuinely allocated, so it moves when it lands. Best served neat or with a splash of water.