Allocated bourbon — where it lands

Bourbon spends years in new charred oak, so the bottles on shelves today were filled long before demand caught up — and the most wanted releases, from the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection to Pappy Van Winkle and Weller, are rationed to stores a few bottles at a time. That gap between what was laid down a decade ago and what people want now is what makes a bourbon “allocated.”

862 bottles tracked.