Black Button Single Barrel Apple Brandy Finished Bourbon

A special limited-edition expression from Black Buttton.

Jason Barrett’s family has been making elegant buttons for four generations and made sure suits and pants of presidents and popes stayed buttoned. But Jason wanted to pivot into something else that’s fine: Whiskey. His family taught him to work hard and don’t rush things, which comes in handy if you’re making Whiskey. He set up shop in Rochester, NY, when he was 24, and began concocting small-batch wonders in the first grain-to-glass distillery in Rochester since the Prohibition.

Black Button Single Barrel Apple Brandy Finished Bourbon is a sipper with a special finish. This lovely dram was first matured for 2 years in a single American white oak barrel. Then, it was finished for another 2 and a half years in an apple Brandy barrel. The result? A limited-edition bottle that clocks in at 119 proof and wreathes full-bodied flavors of ripe apples and honey, rounded up by mature oak and baking spices. Marvelous.