Jack Daniel's 14-Year-Old Tennessee Whiskey (Aged Series, Batch 2)

Name: Jack Daniel's 14-Year-Old Tennessee Whiskey (Aged Series, Batch 2)
Brand: Jack Daniel Distillery
SKU: 082184007266-2
Price: 549.95 USD
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Age: 14 Years | Region: Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA | Proof: 117.6

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Jack Daniel's 14-Year-Old Batch 2, released March 2026, is the second 14-year-old Lynchburg has produced in over a century — and the batch that proves what barrel proof means. It came in at 117.6 proof, nine points below the inaugural 126.3, because nobody chose either number: the barrels did.

The Elemental Distinction

Only the second 14-Year-Old produced at Jack Daniel's in over a century, in the distillery's own words.
**117.6 proof against Batch 1's 126.3** — a nine-point drop in one year, and the clearest demonstration in the Aged Series of what barrel proof actually means. The 10-Year holds 97 and the 12-Year 107 because those are decisions. This is a measurement.
Reviewers put the drop down to where the barrels slept: older stock moved to lower, cooler floors to slow the ageing — which is precisely the policy Chris Fletcher has described for the series' oldest whiskey.
Same grain bill as Old No. 7: 80% corn, 12% malted barley, 8% rye, charcoal-mellowed through ten feet of sugar-maple charcoal before barreling.
Released March 2026 in a three-expression wave: 10-Year Batch 5 at 97 proof, 12-Year Batch 4 at 107, and this at 117.6.
Batch-bound page: Batch 2 only. On this expression the printed proof identifies the batch by itself.

Sensory Profile

Producer note (March 2026): aromas of sweet bakery spices and molasses with layers of oak; a palate opening on cinnamon and creamy butterscotch, balanced with rich leather that lingers into aged oak and pipe tobacco.

This batch, and the reviewers split hard. Drinkhacker called it a big step up on the inaugural release, flirting with a high grade but still with growing to do. Bourbon & Banter found chocolate dominating everything — chocolate-covered cherries on the nose, a palate like boozy chocolate syrup without the cloying sweetness, with the usual tobacco and charred oak pushed aside. Amongst the Whiskey was unconvinced: buttery but a proof tingle too hot to sit with, a little one-noted, with only whisper-thin cherry, fig and plum behind the barrel funk. Three readings, all attributed, none reconciled.

Why this expression's notes are worth more than its siblings': Jack Daniel's states that across the Aged Series the predominant notes of oak, butterscotch and tobacco run through every whiskey, and it has reused batch notes verbatim on the 10-Year and 12-Year. The 14-Year is the exception — it is bottled at barrel proof, so the batches genuinely diverge, and the distillery has written each one fresh.

Strategic Position

The newest bottle on our barrel-proof Tennessee shelf, and the one that settles what the Aged Series means by barrel proof. Set it against the 126.3-proof inaugural 14-year — same age, same mash, same charcoal, nine proof points apart, and nothing between them but which barrels were chosen and where they slept. Beside it that March, the 2026 12-year batch held 107 exactly, as it always does.

Technical Specifications

Distillery	Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee
Class	Tennessee Whiskey (age-stated; Aged Series; barrel proof)
Age	14 years
Batch	Batch 2
Proof / ABV	117.6 proof (58.8% ABV)
Mash bill	80% corn, 12% malted barley, 8% rye
Process	Lincoln County Process (sugar-maple charcoal mellowing)
Maturation	New American white oak; older stock moved off the top-floor ricks to lower floors
Format	700 mL
Release	March 2026, US
Region	Tennessee, USA

Collector Note

Batch 2 is the buy-at-retail window on the series' oldest whiskey, and it is also the batch that makes a two-bottle vertical worth owning: 126.3 and 117.6, fourteen years apiece, one year apart. No other expression in the Aged Series can show you that, because no other one is bottled at barrel proof. It divides opinion more sharply than anything else Jack Daniel's has released recently — one reviewer's step up is another's one-noted barrel funk — which is usually a sign a whiskey is doing something rather than nothing. The printed proof identifies the batch; you do not need the neck stamp for this one.

Recommended Serving

Neat, tulip, no rush. At 117.6 this is gentler than the debut and reviewers who found Batch 1 too hot should start here. A few drops of water bring the butterscotch and bakery-spice side forward against the leather. The pour that earns the bottle is beside Batch 1: two glasses, one age, nine proof points, and the entire argument for barrel-proof bottling in front of you.

Production Methodology

The mash never changes — 80% corn, 12% malted barley, 8% rye, the Old No. 7 grain bill — mellowed drop by drop through ten feet of sugar-maple charcoal before barreling, then fourteen years in new American white oak. What changes is where the barrels sleep and what they measure at the end. Chris Fletcher has described the constraint plainly: Lynchburg's top-floor ricks run hot enough that stock held this long turns wood-driven, so older barrels are moved to lower floors to blunt the barrel's impact. Reviewers reading Batch 2 against the debut attribute the nine-point drop to exactly that. No water is added at bottling, so 117.6 is what came out of the wood.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What proof is Jack Daniel's 14 Year Batch 2?

117.6 proof, or 58.8% ABV, bottled at full barrel proof with no water added. That is nine points below the inaugural Batch 1's 126.3 — the two are the same age, the same mash and the same process, so the gap is entirely a matter of which barrels were selected and where they matured.

Why is Batch 2 of the 14-Year lower proof than Batch 1?

Because nobody set either number. The 14-Year is the one Aged Series expression bottled at barrel proof, so the strength reports the barrels. Reviewers attribute Batch 2's lower figure to cooler, lower-floor maturation — and Chris Fletcher has described that policy directly: Lynchburg's top-floor ricks run hot enough that older stock is now moved down to keep the barrel from dominating the whiskey. Lower and cooler means less concentration, and a gentler proof.

How old is Jack Daniel's 14 Year?

Fourteen years, and it is the oldest expression Jack Daniel's sells — only the second 14-year-old the distillery has produced in over a century, by its own account. The Aged Series runs 10, 12 and 14 years, with the strength climbing alongside the age: 97 proof, 107 proof, and barrel proof for this one.

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