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Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Sour Mash Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750ml

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$399.96
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Product Description

Awarded World's Best Single Barrel Bourbon 2026 by World Whiskies Awards America Elmer T. Lee with fifty years experience. Has produced some of the finest bourbons ever bottled. This is his own private selection.

Product Specs

Alcohol by Volume45.0%
Country of OriginUnited States
RegionKentucky
UPC080244007737

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Awards & Scores

Critic reviews and blind-tasting competition results for this bottle.

What critics and judges wrote

Wine Enthusiast · Kara Newman · September 2010
Complex and addictive. Scents of cinnamon, hazelnuts, and dried fruit precede big flavors: cinnamon spice, raisinated and plummy, like Madeira or Sherry. Long finish, with a bit of a bite.
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Beverage Testing Institute · September 2020
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Whisky Advocate · John Hansell · 2013
Delicately complex teasing aromas, with a potpourri of spices, floral notes, and complex fruit (oranges, plum, pineapple, coconut). … Impeccably balanced flavors and subtly complex, with notes of exotic fruit, subtle spices, almonds and soft honey tones.
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Distiller · Rob Morton
It's warm with an inviting baked apple crisp with vanilla ice cream aroma. The palate finds more oats, apples, cinnamon, caramel and oak. The finish is long and spicy with the cinnamon prevailing note.
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World Whiskies Awards judges · Best Kentucky Single Barrel Bourbon · 2026
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
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Category Winner2026worldwhiskiesawards.com ↗
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
Vanilla buttercream and leather on the nose; on the palate, orange starburst, apple crisp, vanilla wafer, vanilla buttercream, baking spice and honeysuckle; a rich, fruit forward finish with candied citrus, caramel, toasted wood and vanilla buttercream.
IWSC judges · Gold · 2021
Delicate fruity nose, with hints of nuts and sweet confection. Rounded and full with appealing leather notes, balanced oak fruitiness and mouthfeel. Hint of caramel on the deeply satisfying finish.
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Show 3 more notes, 2019 to 2022
Bronze2022iwsc.net ↗
Lifted oak notes give flavour with subtle peppery notes and clean tropical fruits on the palate.
Silver2020iwsc.net ↗
An expressive and fruity nose with hints of peach and cedar. The palate is balanced with warming Christmas spices and marzipan flavours, supported by some subtle herbal undertones.
Silver2019iwsc.net ↗
A sweet nose with a rich intense palate with dried fruits and spices. Big spices and rosins with a long finish. Custard, caramelised apples, spices and cloves.

Competition medals

18 medals from 4 competitions, 2018 to 2026.

Tasting Notes

Flavor profile

How strongly each flavor family shows up across 19 notes from 6 publications, weighted by source.

  • Herbal & greenfloral notes, a little minty, floral character, Sappy, pine resinLight
  • Fruitycomplex fruit (oranges, plum, pineapple, coconut), exotic fruitClear
  • Sweetsoft honey tones, vanilla ice cream, caramel, vanilla, light molassesLight
  • Oak & maltalmonds, hazelnuts, oats, oak, slight malty characterClear
  • SmokeSome smokeA hint
  • Spicea potpourri of spices, subtle spices, scents of cinnamon, big flavors: cinnamon spice, the spice flows freelyClear

Flavor map

Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Sour Mash against other bourbons we carry. Closer dots taste more alike.

← More delicateRicher →Less smokySmokier →Elmer T. Lee SingleBarrel Sour MashBlood OathLegent YamazakiCask Finish Blend

Closest bourbons at a similar price: Blood Oath ($499.96) and Legent Yamazaki Cask Finish Blend ($249.96).

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Each whisky's place on the map, from 0 to 10.

WhiskyRichSmokyPrice
Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Sour Mash (this bottle)5.22.2$399.96
Blood Oath5.22.3$499.96
Four Roses Small Batch5.12.3$32.97
Green River Distilling Co.5.12.1$42.98
Woodford Reserve Distillers Select4.92.2$34.97
Michter's US-1 Small Batch5.52.0$49.97
Old Forester 'Statesman'5.22.6$59.98
WhistlePig PiggyBack 6 Year Old 100 Proof5.62.1$49.97
Yellowstone Select4.82.0$39.98
Charles Medley Distillers Wathen's Single Barrel5.11.7$69.98
Rowan's Creek5.72.3$64.98
Tincup 10 Year Old5.11.7$59.98
W. L. Weller 12 Year Old Wheated5.12.7$199.96
Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch4.72.1$39.97
Bib & Tucker 6 Year Old Small Batch4.72.4$39.97
Legent Yamazaki Cask Finish Blend5.01.7$249.96
Backbone Prime Blended5.32.8$49.98
Maker's Mark 465.31.6$44.98
Widow Jane 'Baby Jane' Heirloom Corn5.41.6$49.98
Woodinville Whiskey Co. Pot Distilled5.72.6$39.97
Elijah Craig 18 Year Old Single Barrel5.92.3$199.96
Jim Beam Black 7 Year Old5.31.5$24.98
Jos. A. Magnus & Co. 'Joseph Magnus' Triple Cask Finished5.92.1$99.97
Widow Jane Lucky Thirteen 13 Year Old5.11.5$139.96
Daviess County 96 Proof5.42.9$49.98
Johnny Drum 'Private Stock'5.71.6$59.98

Flavor scores are our estimates. A flavor scores higher when more critics mention it and when they describe it more strongly, so no single review sets the result. They are not a rating from any publication.

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