Knob Creek 9 Years Old Small Batch 70cl

Big, toasty bourbon energy, with enough backbone to stand up in an Old Fashioned and enough layers to keep you sipping neat.

• Nose: Roasted peanuts, vanilla bean, brown sugar, and charred oak, like walking past a pecan pie cooling next to a fireplace.
• Taste: Caramel and maple up front, then baking spices (cinnamon, clove), dark cherry, and a punch of oak that reminds you this isn’t here to play nice.
• Finish: Long and warming, with lingering peppery spice, toasted nuts, and dry oak that hangs around in the best way.

Knob Creek is for when you want your bourbon to show up with opinions. The “small batch” approach means the flavour stays consistent, barrel to barrel, so you get that signature mix of sweet caramel, nutty richness, and proper oak every time.

That 9-year age statement matters because it’s where the whiskey starts stacking flavours instead of just tasting sweet. More time in oak brings deeper vanilla, darker sugars, and that bold, slightly smoky char note that makes this feel built for slow sipping.

If you’re mixing, this is your upgrade button. In a Bourbon & Ginger, it doesn’t disappear. In a Whiskey Sour, the spice and oak keep the citrus in check. And in an Old Fashioned, it’s basically doing the heavy lifting, you just steer it with bitters and an orange peel.

Neat or with one ice cube, it’s a great “learn bourbon” bottle too. You can point to what you’re tasting, sweet, spice, nutty, oak, and it’s all right there, clearly, without having to pretend you’re writing tasting notes for a living.

Country of origin: USA (Kentucky).

Fun Fact: Knob Creek was created as part of Jim Beam’s small-batch lineup in the early 1990s, and it’s named after the creek near Abraham Lincoln’s childhood home.