2000 Woodford Reserve Breeder's Cup Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1Lt
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The 2000 Woodford Reserve Breeders' Cup Edition is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, bottled at Woodford Reserve's standard 90.4 proof (45.2% ABV) per the label, released in a one-liter commemorative bottle honoring the 2000 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships. That year's championship was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville on November 4, 2000, and Woodford Reserve, then only four years old as a brand, served as an official bourbon of the event, cementing the young label's bond with Kentucky racing.
Woodford Reserve launched in 1996 from the historic Labrot and Graham distillery site in Woodford County, Kentucky, a stone distillery on Glenn's Creek whose distilling heritage reaches back to the early nineteenth century and the era of Oscar Pepper and James Crow. By 2000 the brand had also become the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby, and this Breeders' Cup bottling extended that thoroughbred association to racing's richest day, wrapping the brand's Distiller's Select bourbon in championship livery.
Trade press at the time reported a run of roughly 8,000 bottles, dressed with a gold-and-purple argyle neck ring and bottle band carrying the Breeders' Cup logo, with Churchill Downs and the November 4, 2000 date scripted on the glass. Inside is Woodford Reserve's triple-distilled, small-batch bourbon: honeyed vanilla, dried fruit, toasty oak and rye spice in the classic house balance. Collectors should verify edition particulars against the bottle itself, as period documentation is thin.
As one of the earliest commemorative bottlings Woodford Reserve ever produced, the 2000 Breeders' Cup liter sits at the origin point of what became the brand's famous annual Derby bottle tradition. Its small run, generous one-liter format and date-stamped tie to a Churchill Downs championship make it a genuine rarity from the brand's formative years, prized by collectors of both Woodford Reserve and thoroughbred-racing memorabilia, and distinctly scarcer than the Derby editions that followed it.
- 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, 2000 (Churchill Downs, November 4, 2000)
- Vintage: 2000 edition
- Production: Reported run of approximately 8,000 bottles; verify per label
- Presentation: Gold-and-purple argyle neck ring and band with Breeders' Cup logo, 1L bottle
- Tasting Notes: Honeyed vanilla, dried fruit, toasty oak, rye spice
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