2016 Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Double Double Oaked Straight Bourbon Whiskey 375ml

The 2016 Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Double Double Oaked Straight Bourbon Whiskey is the Fall 2016 bottling of the series' breakout release: fully mature Woodford Reserve Double Oaked finished an additional year in its second, heavily toasted, lightly charred new oak barrel, bottled at 90.4 proof (45.2% ABV) in the Distillery Series' signature 375ml format.

After the 2015 debut proved a sensation, Double Double Oaked returned as the Distillery Series hit its stride — by early 2016 the line was turning out experiments like Frosty Four Wood, with bottles sold at the Versailles, Kentucky distillery and select Kentucky retailers. The Fall 2016 Double Double Oaked run was the kind of release you had to travel for: contemporaneous coverage noted it could only be bought at the distillery's gift shop, where it remained on shelves into the following year.

The whiskey itself doubles down on Woodford's signature barrel work. Standard Double Oaked re-barrels mature Woodford Reserve — 72% corn, 18% rye, 10% malted barley — into a second new oak barrel that is deeply toasted and only lightly charred, drawing out sweet oak, caramel, and vanilla. Double Double Oaked extends that second-barrel finish to two full years, and the extra wood time flips the profile: distinctly spicier and darker than its sweeter sibling, with the toasted barrel's sugars cooked into deeper, more brooding territory.

Master Distiller Chris Morris built the Distillery Series to explore extreme variations of whiskey, and Double Double Oaked quickly became its star — the expression fans would soon demand as an annual tradition. Early bottlings like this Fall 2016 run predate the January release ritual, the purchase limits, and the sweepstakes that later defined the brand's most coveted winter release. For series collectors, the second-year bottling is a document of the cult in its formative days, produced at a National Historic Landmark distillery site where whiskey has been made since 1812.

• Size: 375ml
• Proof: 90.4 (45.2% ABV)
• Age: No age statement — fully mature Double Oaked finished an additional year in its second barrel
• Origin: Versailles, Kentucky
• Distillery: Woodford Reserve Distillery (Brown-Forman)
• Whiskey Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
• Mash Bill: 72% corn, 18% rye, 10% malted barley
• Cask/Cooperage: Second new oak barrel — heavily toasted, lightly charred; two years total in the second barrel
• Series: Woodford Reserve Distillery Series — Fall 2016 release
• Vintage: 2016