Shelf bourbons

Leo Hart

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These are the bottles that survived my ruthless ‘return on hangover’ screen. All available in London if you poke around halfway decent shops or bars, all tested under real‑world conditions (late trains, bonus season, Sunday scaries). Nothing here is unicorn territory; this is the bourbon list for people who still look at their bank statement after a night out.

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Shelf bourbons — 7 items
Name	Style	ABV	Typical price range (UK)	Best for	My take
1Buffalo Trace Bourbon	Straight bourbon	40% ABV	£25–£30	Weeknight pour and cocktails	If this were a stock it’d be a boring blue‑chip dividend payer: never exciting, never wrong, always there when you need it.
2Wild Turkey 101	High‑rye bourbon	50.5% ABV	£30–£35	Cold evenings and old fashioneds with backbone	The yield on this one is absurd: flavour, spice, and warmth per pound all wildly above market beta.
3Eagle Rare 10 Year	Aged straight bourbon	45% ABV	£50–£65	Slow Friday night reward dram	This is the ‘quality compounder’ in the portfolio — not cheap, but every sip feels like patiently reinvested dividends.
4Maker’s Mark	Wheated bourbon	45% ABV	£25–£32	Easy sipping and highballs	Soft, friendly and a bit too agreeable — like that growth stock everyone owns because it’s in the index, but you’re still happy it’s there.
5Four Roses Small Batch	Small‑batch bourbon blend	45% ABV	£35–£45	Dinner party crowd‑pleaser	Ridiculously well‑diversified flavour: fruit, spice, vanilla. Basically an ETF of everything people like about bourbon.
6Knob Creek 9 Year	Aged small‑batch bourbon	50% ABV	£40–£50	Long, slightly dangerous conversations	Big oak, big sweetness, big everything; this one absolutely wrecked my thesis on ‘just one and I’ll head home at a sensible hour.’
7Elijah Craig Small Batch	Small‑batch Kentucky bourbon	47% ABV	£40–£48	Quiet nights with too many tabs open	Feels like under‑priced quality: lots of depth, a little smoke, and the kind of steady complexity I wish half my watchlist had.

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