Release Guide
Woodford Master's Collection.
A year-by-year cheat sheet for the wheated allocated.
Every Woodford Reserve Master's Collection release is a thesis. The distillery built its philosophy around five sources of bourbon flavor (grain, water, fermentation, distillation, maturation), and the Master's Collection is what happens when the master distiller picks one of those sources and pulls on the thread. A chocolate malted rye mash bill. A brandy cask finish. A four-grain recipe with everything malted. A stouted-fermentation experiment. Each release isolates a single variable and lets it speak.
For collectors and enthusiasts, that's the point. A wood-finish release doesn't drink like a mash-bill experiment; a sweet-mash year is a different conversation than a stouted-fermentation one. Below is the working reference we keep at Cana, every Master's Collection release in order, with proof, age, the variable being explored, and the technical details that explain what the master distiller was actually testing.
No. 01 — The Releases
33 Releases, by the numbers.
| Release Year | Edition | Proof | Whiskey Type | Spec / Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| View releaseRELEASE2005 | EDITIONNo. 1 | PROOF92.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECFour Grain (Kentucky Release) |
| View releaseRELEASE2006 | EDITIONNo. 01 | PROOF92.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECFour Grain (National Release) |
| View releaseRELEASE2007 | EDITIONNo. 02 | PROOF86.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay |
| View releaseRELEASE2008 | EDITIONNo. 03 | PROOF86.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPEC1838 Sweet Mash |
| View releaseRELEASE2009 | EDITIONNo. 04 | PROOF100.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSeasoned Oak |
| View releaseRELEASE2010 | EDITIONNo. 05 | PROOF94.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECMaple Wood |
| View releaseRELEASE2011 | EDITIONNo. 06 | PROOF92.4 | WHISKEY TYPERye | SPECNew Cask Rye |
| View releaseRELEASE2011 | EDITIONNo. 06 | PROOF92.4 | WHISKEY TYPERye | SPECAged Cask Rye |
| View releaseRELEASE2012 | EDITIONNo. 07 | PROOF94.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECFour Wood |
| View releaseRELEASE2013 | EDITIONNo. 08 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEMalt Whiskey | SPECStraight Malt |
| View releaseRELEASE2013 | EDITIONNo. 08 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEMalt Whiskey | SPECClassic Malt |
| View releaseRELEASE2014 | EDITIONNo. 09 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir |
| View releaseRELEASE2015 | EDITIONNo. 10 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPEC1838 Style White Corn |
| View releaseRELEASE2016 | EDITIONNo. 11 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBrandy Cask |
| View releaseRELEASE2017 | EDITIONNo. 12 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECCherry Wood Smoked Barley |
| View releaseRELEASE2018 | EDITIONNo. 13 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECOat Grain |
| View releaseRELEASE2018 | EDITIONNo. 14 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSelect American Oak |
| View releaseRELEASE2018 | EDITIONBP No. 1 | PROOF125.8 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| View releaseRELEASE2019 | EDITIONNo. 15 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECChocolate Malted Rye |
| View releaseRELEASE2019 | EDITIONBP No. 2 | PROOF123.2 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| View releaseRELEASE2020 | EDITIONNo. 16 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECVery Fine Rare |
| View releaseRELEASE2020 | EDITIONBP No. 3 | PROOF123.6 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| View releaseRELEASE2021 | EDITIONNo. 17 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEMalt Whiskey | SPECFive-Malt Stouted Mash |
| View releaseRELEASE2021 | EDITIONBP No. 4 | PROOF128.3 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| RELEASE2021 | EDITIONBP No. 5 | PROOF119.8 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof (Costco Release) |
| RELEASE2022 | EDITIONNo. 18 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECHistoric Entry Proof |
| View releaseRELEASE2022 | EDITIONBP No. 6 | PROOF118.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| View releaseRELEASE2023 | EDITIONNo. 19 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSonoma Triple Finish |
| RELEASE2023 | EDITIONBP No. 7 | PROOF124.7 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| RELEASE2024 | EDITIONNo. 20 | PROOF90.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBlended Whiskey | SPECMadeira Cask |
| RELEASE2024 | EDITIONBP No. 8 | PROOF121.2 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
| RELEASE2025 | EDITIONNo. 21 | PROOF110.4 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECSweet Oak |
| RELEASE2025 | EDITIONBP No. 9 | PROOF119.5 | WHISKEY TYPEBourbon | SPECBatch Proof |
How to read this table
Proof is bottle proof, uncut and unfiltered. Age is years and months from the day it entered the barrel to the day it was bottled. Warehouse is the rickhouse letter where the barrels matured — multiple letters mean a release was a blend of barrels from more than one rickhouse. Floor is the floor (or floors) those barrels rested on. Higher floors run hotter and yield more aggressive evaporation; lower floors are cooler and slower.
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