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93Excellent

Booker’s The Reserves 2024

Bourbon Booker's
  • Distiller

    Beam

  • Bottler

    Beam

  • ABV

    62.95%

  • Age

    NAS

  • Price $100 to $199.99

Booker’s Bourbon “The Reserves” is a new series honoring Booker Noe, the grandfather of Freddie Noe, 8th Generation Master Distiller at Fred B. Noe Distillery. The inaugural release is a blend of uncut, unfiltered, cask-strength bourbons aged between 8 and 14 years, sourced from eight different warehouses. Due to the rarity and age of the barrels chosen for this series, "The Reserves" will be offered in smaller quantities than current Booker’s releases. The suggested retail price is $129.99, and the bourbon is bottled at 125.9 proof.

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Aggregated Reviews
  • Raided Score: 94
  • The Bourbon Culture
  • By Mike & Mike
  • Booker’s “The Reserves” definitely belongs up near the top of the best batches to wear the Booker’s name.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • The Daily Pour
  • By T8ke
  • This is wildly unique from Booker’s typical expressions, and in many ways I love it. It’s a bit hot throughout which is my only critique, but it’s still a killer pour.
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  • Raided Score: 94
  • VinePair
  • By David Thomas Tao
  • Booker’s “The Reserves” is really good whiskey and a worthy inheritor of the brand name.
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  • Raided Score: 95
  • Breaking Bourbon
  • By Eric Hasman
  • Nuance isn’t typically used to describe a Booker’s Bourbon release, but this well-constructed and balanced inaugural batch for the brand’s first major expansion takes Booker’s in a new and exciting direction.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • Drinkhacker
  • By Christopher Null
  • Give it a healthy splash of water to tame the beast and evoke some cola and flamed orange peel notes, because this is hot stuff in more ways than one.
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House Review
  • Nose:

    Toffee, butter cream, honey roasted peanuts, big oak, barrel char and tobacco hits first on the nose. It’s big and bold.

  • Taste:

    Palate is rich and powerful, a touch of ethanol but also loads of graham cracker, pie crust, gingerbread, orange peel, peanut butter and caramel, cocoa, honey roasted peanuts, tobacco and oak. It’s totally offbeat for Booker’s — in a lovely sort of way.

  • Finish:

    Hot finish loaded with spice, some ethanol, dry oak, toffee and buttercream.

  • Overall:

    Booker’s “The Reserves” is really good whiskey and a worthy inheritor of the brand name. It's wildly unique from Booker’s typical expressions, and in many ways I love it. It’s a bit hot throughout, which is my only critique, but it’s still a killer pour.

  • Score:

    88

  • Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.

  • By T8ke
  • Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources