Batch 15 is one of the better-documented Jr.-era bottles: it has official Buffalo Trace tasting notes, and Stagg Jr. earned a double gold at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition the year it came out. Reviewers placed it among the drier, darker Stagg Jr. releases, which some read as a sign of older barrels. With no batch number on Jr.-era labels, the 131.1 proof is what pins a bottle to this release — one notch up from Batch 16's 130.9. For the long term, keep the bottle sealed and upright, somewhere cool and dark.

Batch 15 carries no age statement, but Buffalo Trace has described the whiskey as aged over eight years — older than the label admits. It is the standard build: low-rye Mash Bill #1, distilled at Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, Kentucky, the grain split unpublished, drawn from the barrel and bottled unfiltered at 131.1 proof. Reviewers felt this one ran drier and darker than the fruitier releases around it.

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What proof is Stagg Jr Batch 15?

At 131.1 proof (65.55% ABV), Batch 15 is bottled at full barrel strength and left unfiltered. Stagg Jr. bottles from this era show no batch number on the label, so the proof is the giveaway — 131.1 here, versus 130.9 for the later Batch 16. The strength is whatever the barrels yielded, with no water added.

What does Stagg Jr Batch 15 taste like?

Buffalo Trace's official notes for Batch 15 give vanilla bean and salted caramel on the nose; cherries, cinnamon, and oak on the palate; and a long finish of toasted vanilla, pepper, coffee, and a hint of sweet mint. Reviewers added butter toffee and creamy nougat, and several found it drier and darker than the fruitier earlier batches — a sign, to some, of older barrels. It was a Winter 2020 release at 131.1 proof.