George T. Stagg is a limited-production bourbon whiskey distributed by Buffalo Trace Distillery, as part of the distillery's "Antique Collection" series. It is a high proof uncut and unfiltered bourbon, aged for approximately 15 years. It has been distributed only once a year in the fall (a second spring release was added in 2005). It is mainly distributed within the U.S.A.
George T. Stagg had been the owner of the Buffalo Trace Distillery after Edmund H. Taylor Jr. starting in 1878.
Reviews and awards The whiskey has been highly awarded in various spirit ratings competitions and has won best rankings in some years in Jim Murray's "Whisky Bible". The San Francisco World Spirits Competition awarded three gold and three double gold medals to the bourbon between 2006 and 2012.
George T. Stagg was awarded the Chairman's Trophy among Kentucky Straight Bourbons at the 2014 New York "Ultimate Spirits Challenge","Ultimate Spirits Challenge – 2014 Results", MUDL magazine, March 24, 2014. and in 2013 it won the Best North American Whiskey award at the World Whiskies Awards.
In December 2015, the 2015 release of George T. Stagg was named "#3 of Top 65 Five-Star Spirits of 2015" and awarded "5 Stars - Highest Recommendation" by F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal. The 2015 release of Stagg also won a Gold Medal in the "Best Non-Age Statement Bourbon" category of the 2016 World Whiskies Awards, sponsored by Whisky Magazine.
Food critic Morgan Murphy once wrote "If you want your guests' eyes to pop out of their heads in a fit of bourbon ecstasy, this is your bourbon."
Releases Year/Information Year of DistillationProduct Age Proof % ABVNumber of BarrelsWarehousesWarehouse FloorsEvaporation LossNumber of Bottles (est.) 2002 N/A15 years 137.6 68.8N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A 2003 N/A15 years 142.7 71.35N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A 2004 Spring 198816 years 129 64.540QN/A53.18%5,009 Spring 2005 Lot A: Kentucky Spring 198816 years, 8 months 130.9 65.4580 (combined Spring release)Q2, 454.98%9,633 (combined Spring release) Spring 2005 Lot B: Non-Kentucky release Spring 198816 years, 8 months 131.8 65.980 (combined Spring release)Q2, 454.98%9,633 (combined Spring release) Fall 2005 Spring 199015 years, 4 months 141.2 70.695I2, 4, 858.59%10,522 2006 Spring 199016 years, 3 months 140.6 70.389I857.57%10,100 2007 Spring 199215 years, 6 month 144.8 72.494I145.23%13,770 2008 Spring 199315 years, 6 months 141.8 70.983I, K1, 3, 550.07%11,084 2009 Winter 199216 years, 7 months 141.4 70.7109K1, 349.81%14,632 2010 Winter 199317 years, 7 months 143.0 71.5142H, I, K, L1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 948.43%19,586 2011 Winter 199318 years, 5 months 142.6 71.3124H, I, K1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 857.83%13,986 2012 Spring 199516 years, 9 months 142.8 71.4118L, H, I, K1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 853.69%14,616 2013 Spring 199715 years, 11 months 128.2 64.1157I, K, Q1, 2, 4, 873.34%11,195 2014 Spring 199816 years, 4 months 138.1 69.05161C, H, I, K, L, P, Q1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 774.81%10,847 2015 Spring 200015 years, 1 month 138.2 69.1128C, H, I, L, M, H, Q, K1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 784.46%5,320 2016 Spring 200115 years, 4 months 144.1 72.05142M, N, H, L, K1, 2, 375.99%9,119 2017 Spring 200215 years, 3 months 129.2 64.6309C, K, M, Q1, 2, 3, 654.03%37,993 2018 Spring 200315 years, 4 months 124.9 62.45284C, H, I, K, P, Q1, 2, 3, 4, 551.15%37,107 2019 Spring 200415 years, 3 months 116.9 58.45N/AC, H, K, Q, I1, 2, 3, 456.0%N/A 2020 Spring 200515 years, 4 months 130.4 65.2 N/AL, K, Q1, 2, 959.0%N/A 2022 Spring 200715 years, 5 months 138.7 69.35N/AK1, 375.0%N/A2023Spring 200815 years, 3 months13567.5N/AC, I, K, L, M1, 2, 3, 4, 568.0%N/A2024Fall 2008 Through Spring 2009 15 years, 2 months136.168.05N/AC, L, M, P1, 2, 3, 4, 561.0%N/A
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