This small batch bourbon from Wilderness Trail contains a mash bill of 64% corn, 24% rye, and 12% malted barley, made with the brand’s own yeast strains. The expression is smooth enough to be had alone or added as a delicious kick to your favorite mixed drink. You’ll get herbs, apples, and cinnamon on the nose, followed by nuts, caramel, and spice on the palate and a long, earthy finish. 

Double Gold-Winner, San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Region: Kentucky | Tasting Notes: Nut, Caramel, Spice | ABV: 50%

2. Southern Star Paragon Wheated Bourbon

This double gold award-winning, 100 proof bottled-in-bond bourbon whiskey contains a sweet and complex lineup of floral elements contained in a rich silky texture. Stick around long enough and you can soak up the warm flavors of ripe apple and dried apricot.

Double Gold-Winner, San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Region: North Carolina | Tasting Notes: Floral, Apple, Dried Fruit | ABV: 50%

3. Oak & Eden Wheat & Spire – Taster’s Club Selection

Oak & Eden breaks tradition in the finishing (or double barrel) process with its Wheat & Spire bourbon. Instead of putting its fully-aged whiskey in a second barrel to add more flavor coming naturally from the wood, they put a spire (a spiral-cut piece of oak made from the same species and treatment as barrel oak) in the bottle. This unique expression offers flavors of fruit, wheat, custard, spice, licorice, and vanilla.

Region: Texas | Tasting Notes: Fruit, Wheat, Custard, Spice, Licorice, Vanilla | ABV: 40%

4. Four Roses Single Barrel

This complex, full-bodied, and incredibly smooth single barrel bourbon has aromas of oak, caramel, vanilla, fruit, and mint, flavors of honey, apple, vanilla, oak, and spice, and a delicate, long, and mellow finish.

Region: Kentucky | Tasting Notes: Honey, Apple, Vanilla, Oak, Spice | ABV: 50%

5. Brother’s Bond Cask Strength

This limited release of Brother’s Bond’s original cask strength expression showcases the brand’s bourbon undiluted, unfiltered, and uncut at 115.8 proof. It’s influenced only by the barrel’s qualities, the passing of time, and the artful blending of three distinctive mash bills to create a four-grain straight bourbon original cask strength whiskey. You’ll get aromas of banana, walnut, leather, rye, vanilla, and smoke, and flavors of caramel, vanilla, honey, and dried fruit.

Region: Indiana | Tasting Notes: Caramel, Vanilla, Honey, Dried Fruit | ABV: 57.57%

6. Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon

Double gold award-winner Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon is non-chill filtered and aged 4 to 5 years in new 53-gallon oak barrels. Full-bodied and smooth, it offers dried orchard fruits on the nose and cinnamon, spice, caramel, and brown sugar on the palate.

Double Gold-Winner, San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Region: IndianaTasting Notes: Cinnamon, Spice, Caramel, Brown SugarABV: 46%

7. The Clover Straight Bourbon

This double gold-winning whiskey presents a subtle aroma of oak and spice with a taste of deep caramel, vanilla, and a hint of citrus orange, delivering a soft, lingering finish of caramel, vanilla, and light oak.

Double Gold-Winner, San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Region: North Carolina | Tasting Notes: Caramel, Vanilla, Orange | ABV: 46%

8. Breckenridge 105

Breckenridge’s 105 is its blended bourbon with a twist, bottled at 105 proof. As they blend, the brand’s distillers taste notes of rich, dark caramel and toasted almonds, burnt Baker’s chocolate, and dried orange peel, with a lingering finish of vanilla and spice.

Region: Colorado | Tasting Notes: Caramel, Almond, Dried Orange Peel | ABV: 52.5%

9. Law’s Whiskey House Bottled in Bond

This special offering of Laws’ Four Grain is the first bonded bourbon in Colorado history. True to the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897, this bourbon is at least four years old, a product of a single season and a single distiller, and has been aged entirely in the maker’s federally-bonded rickhouse. The spirit has flavors of black tea, orange, brown butter, and dates.

Region: Colorado | Tasting Notes: Black Tea, Orange, Dates, Brown Butter | ABV: 50%

10. Rabbit Hole Dareringer

Rabbit Hole's distinct whiskies are crafted in small batches from unique mashbills with unorthodox, specialty grains and distilled without compromise. This Sherry cask-finished bourbon is elegant and sweet, with notes of marmalade, dried fruit, cherry, and raspberry on the nose, and cherry, raspberry, oak, and caramel on the palate.

Region: Kentucky | Tasting Notes: Cherry, Raspberry, Oak, Caramel | ABV: 46.5%