Buffalo Trace ran its ageing experiments for years before building somewhere to hold them. Warehouse P, operating from December 2022, is one of two purpose-built facilities where temperature and conditions are controlled rather than left to a Kentucky summer — the aim, as Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley put it, being to soften the extraction that usually makes very old bourbon taste dry and over-oaked. This whiskey had already spent most of its life in conventional warehousing before being moved in; when it reached twenty-five years it was proofed down to 101 and otherwise bottled as it came. Reporting at release described a single barrel behind the run, which the distillery has not confirmed in those terms.

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How many bottles of Eagle Rare 25 were made?

The 2023 release was approximately 200 bottles of 750 ml, allocated globally from that November. Buffalo Trace brought the expression back alongside its thirty-year in 2026 and has not published a bottle count for that second release.

Was Eagle Rare 25 released more than once?

Yes. It debuted in November 2023 and returned in 2026 when the distillery launched the thirty-year. The 2023 run is the one with a published figure of roughly 200 bottles, so provenance matters when comparing two bottles.

Why does the Eagle Rare 25 decanter have a silver wing?

Twenty-five years is the silver anniversary, and the wing encasing the crystal decanter is hand-hammered sterling silver to mark it. The thirty-year that followed uses a gold-plated wing on the same design language.