Limited edition from Buffalo Trace

Buffalo Trace has launched a limited edition collection of bourbon and rye whiskies. The Buffalo Trace Antique Collection 2014 is a five-strong range, and comes at a time when on-trade sales of American whiskey are on the rise; CGA Peach data shows sale up by 4.2% in the year to 19 April 2014. The five whiskies include George T. Stagg 2014, William Larue Weller unfiltered wheated bourbon, Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye, Eagle Rare 17 Year Old and Sazerac 18 Year Old. Dan Bolton, managing director of Hi-Spirits, said, “There is always high demand for our limited UK allocation of the Antique Collection, and we expect that to be higher than ever for the 2014 release after another year of category growth for the American whiskey.”