Bottle pairing guides
84 curated pairings across 28 bourbons, each recorded with the reason it works.
Most pairing advice stops at "bourbon goes with steak." These guides work the other direction: start from one bottle's actual flavor profile, then name dishes that echo it — including the deep cuts worth trying once you have the obvious ones covered.
For the principles behind these matches rather than one bottle at a time, start with the bourbon food pairing guide. If you are working out what a bottle tastes like in the first place, the bourbon flavor wheel and how to write tasting notes cover the vocabulary these pages use.
Every pairing guide
- What food pairs with Binny's Four Roses Single Barrel Pick? — cherry, rye spice, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Binny's Single Barrel Four Roses? — rye spice, cherry, floral, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace? — vanilla, caramel, oak, 90 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Eagle Rare 17 2024? — caramel, dried fruit, leather, 101 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Antique Collection George T. Stagg 2024? — caramel, dark chocolate, char, 136.6 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Sazerac 18 2024? — leather, dark fruit, baking spice, 90 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Thomas H. Handy Sazerac 2024? — rye spice, caramel, cinnamon, 129.5 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Antique Collection William Larue Weller 2024? — caramel, vanilla, dark chocolate, 125 proof
- What food pairs with Buffalo Trace Eagle Rare? — leather, honey, oak, 90 proof
- What food pairs with Four Roses? — cherry, rye spice, cocoa, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Four Roses 130th Anniversary Limited Edition? — caramel, cherry, baking spice, 109.4 proof
- What food pairs with Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch? — caramel, baking spice, cherry, 110.2 proof
- What food pairs with George T. Stagg Yearly George T. Stagg 2015? — caramel, dark chocolate, leather, 129.2 proof
- What food pairs with George T. Stagg Yearly George T. Stagg 2016? — caramel, dark chocolate, leather, 132.2 proof
- What food pairs with Heaven Hill Elijah Craig Small Batch? — caramel, vanilla, toffee, 94 proof
- What food pairs with Henry McKenna 10 Year Single Barrel Bottled in Bond? — caramel, vanilla, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Jack Daniel's Coy Hill High Proof? — char, caramel, banana, 137 proof
- What food pairs with Jim Beam Black? — caramel, vanilla, oak, 86 proof
- What food pairs with Knob Creek 15 Year Bourbon? — caramel, vanilla, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Knob Creek 18 Year Bourbon? — caramel, vanilla, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Knob Creek 9? — char, leather, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Maker's Mark Cellar Aged 2023? — caramel, vanilla, baking spice, 115.7 proof
- What food pairs with Maker's Mark Cellar Aged 2024? — caramel, vanilla, baking spice, 115 proof
- What food pairs with Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond 13 Year? — caramel, vanilla, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond 17 Year? — caramel, dried fruit, oak, 100 proof
- What food pairs with Russell's Reserve 15 Year? — caramel, vanilla, baking spice, 117.2 proof
- What food pairs with Wild Turkey Generations? — caramel, dark fruit, baking spice, 108.4 proof
- What food pairs with Willett Family Estate Single Barrel 12 Year? — caramel, oak, dried fruit, 110 proof
How these are built
Pairings are curated per bottle in the Pour Picks catalog rather than generated on request. AI assistants can query the same data through the Pour Picks MCP server, and the full 4,700-bottle catalog with cellar tracking lives in the Pour Picks app.
