2002 Woodford Reserve Breeder's Cup Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1Lt
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The 2002 Woodford Reserve Breeders' Cup Edition is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey presented in a one-liter commemorative bottle, carrying Woodford Reserve's standard 90.4 proof (45.2% ABV) per the label, and marking the 2002 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships. Uniquely among the early editions, this bottle commemorates a running held outside Kentucky: the nineteenth Breeders' Cup was hosted by Arlington Park outside Chicago on October 26, 2002, the storied Illinois track's first time staging racing's championship day.
That change of venue is what separates this bottle from its 2000 predecessor. Where the 2000 edition celebrated a hometown championship at Churchill Downs, the 2002 liter carried a Kentucky bourbon to an eight-race, thirteen-million-dollar card run on Arlington's famous turf and dirt, a day remembered for War Emblem's season finale and Volponi's stunning Classic upset. For Woodford Reserve, still barely six years old, the bottling continued a thoroughbred alliance that already included the Kentucky Derby.
The bourbon inside is Woodford Reserve Distiller's Select as the label describes it: a small-batch Kentucky straight bourbon delivering layered vanilla, caramel, dried fruit, cocoa and peppery rye spice from the brand's copper-pot-still and column-still marriage. Documentation for this early commemorative is sparse, so edition specifics, from run size to design detail, should be confirmed from the bottle itself, which remains the authoritative record of the release.
Early Woodford Reserve commemoratives from before the Derby-bottle program matured into an annual collecting phenomenon are scarce, and the 2002 Breeders' Cup liter is among the least often seen. Its Arlington Park association gives it particular resonance now that the track has closed, making the bottle a sealed memento of a vanished venue as well as of a championship. Paired with the 2000 Churchill Downs edition, it completes a two-bottle snapshot of Woodford Reserve's earliest years on racing's biggest stage.
- Size: 1L
- Proof: 90.4 (45.2% ABV) per label
- Age: No age statement
- Origin: Woodford County, Kentucky, USA
- Distillery: Woodford Reserve (historic Labrot & Graham distillery site)
- Type: Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey
- Series: Breeders' Cup commemorative, 2002 (Arlington Park, October 26, 2002)
- Vintage: 2002 edition
- Production: Early limited commemorative; edition specifics per label
- Presentation: Breeders' Cup commemorative dress, 1L bottle
- Tasting Notes: Vanilla, caramel, dried fruit, cocoa, peppery rye spice
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