Texas Oak 8 Year Bourbon

Straight Bourbon Whiskey Aged in Texas Grown Oak

114.8

Proof /

93 Points

/

5.0

$ 70.99 USD

Texas Oak Bourbon is where American whiskey aging tradition meets the Texas-grown oak future and never looks back.

As long as American whiskey has been aged, the oak and barrels have come from the same forests and the same cooperages, and nobody questioned it. But we've never been satisfied with how things are done. We're Texans, and we can't leave a good question alone. So we asked a different one. What if the oak had Texas roots too? That question took us somewhere no whiskey maker had gone. We worked with Standard Cooperage in Blanco, Texas, to build toasted barrels from Texas-grown white oak. Then we filled them with mature 8-year-old bourbon so the Texas wood could give it a finished Texas attitude. Texas Oak Bourbon, the first of its kind, was designed to linger: delicate at first, generous at the center, unforgettable at the finish. Expect a baked-apple-driven core with flavors of deep gingerbread, velvet almond butter, and sweetened dried fruit. A whiskey like this doesn't happen by following the rules. It happens when you carve your own path and thumb your nose at convention.

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Size Guide
size
EU
Chest (cm)
Waist (cm)
XS
44
86–91
71–76
S
46
92–97
77–82
M
48
98–103
83–88
L
50
104–109
89–94
XL
52
110–115
95–100
Details & Origin

‍MASHBILL:‍

75% corn, 21% Rye, 4% Malted Barley

‍PROOF:
Barrel Proof

AGE:
8 Years Old

FINISH:
Texas Grown White Oak (Toasted)

COOPERAGE:
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Standard Cooperage, Blanco Texas

PROVENANCE:
MGP Ingredients, Indiana

NOSE:
Praline, candied ginger, and cinnamon with notes of clove, caramel, almond butter, and dried fruits

PALATE:
Baked apple-driven core with flavors of gingerbread, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla bean, charred oak, and Crème Brulee

FINISH:
Long and lingering. Full-bodied and ideally balanced with an opulent texture.

TASTING NOTES provided by BevX.com
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Overall Rating: 5 / 5

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Blender Notes

Texas Oak Bourbon started as a question about oak, not an afterthought to it. We picked mature eight-year-old barrels that already had a strong identity in charred American white oak — real sweetness, structure, and grain character already in place.From there, we transferred the whiskey into toasted Texas-grown white oak casks to see what a second, local wood influence would do to something that already worked.

The Texas oak brings extra aromatics, more spice, and a heavier finish, and bottling at barrel proof keeps that intact instead of diluting it out. The real work in blending was finding where the American oak character and the Texas oak influence complement each other instead of competing. This blend holds that line — expressive, not chaotic; assertive, not harsh; and shaped unmistakably by where it finished.

Unfortunately, we are unable to ship to the following states: AK, AL, HI, ID, MI, MS, OK, SC, UT

Texas Oak 8 Year Bourbon

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