Onyx & Amber 7 Year Old Wheated Single Barrel #CW01-107 129.26 Proof Indiana Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2026) 75cl
A 7 Year Old Wheated Expression from Onyx & Amber released for Kentucky exclusively.
About Onyx & Amber
Onyx & Amber didn't start as a company. It started as a bourbon group—a community of people who genuinely loved what was in the glass and wanted to find more of it.
Over ten years, we conducted more than 150 single-barrel selections across the country. Along the way, we raised over half a million dollars for charity. And somewhere in the middle of all that, we started noticing something about Colorado—something the barometric pressure swings and the dry mountain air were doing to the spirits in the barrels that nobody else was paying close attention to.
We tasted it. We waited. We tasted again. By 2022, the results were undeniable: whiskey aged in Colorado carried a richness, a viscosity, and a depth that the same distillate simply couldn't develop anywhere else.
This wasn't forced into existence. It grew out of almost a decade of experimentation, learning, and a clear-eyed view of two problems in the market: there was no great high-end Colorado whiskey brand, and the barrel selection experience that enthusiasts once loved had quietly disappeared after COVID. We built Onyx & Amber to fix both.
We didn't force this into existence. It grew out of almost a decade of experimentation, learning, and a clear-eyed view of two problems in the market:
First: There was no great high-end Colorado whiskey brand at the level we were looking for as serious enthusiasts.
Second: The barrel selection experience that enthusiasts once loved had quietly disappeared after COVID. What used to be exciting—spending time in a warehouse, tasting dozens of options, feeling like you were part of the process—had become scripted, rushed, or simply unavailable.
We built Onyx & Amber to fix both.
People often assume it's the altitude. It's not—or not entirely. The real drivers are two things unique to Colorado's climate: intense barometric pressure swings and how extraordinarily dry it is.
Colorado weather shifts fast. Snow at 7 AM, 55 degrees by 2 PM. Those pressure changes force the whiskey in and out of the barrel wood far more frequently than it would in Kentucky or Indiana—more interaction, more flavor extraction over time.
The dryness does something else. Whiskey is water and ethanol. In Colorado's dry air, water escapes the barrel. Ethanol stays. What's left is a higher concentration of everything that matters: the vanilla, the caramel, the depth. The result is a whiskey that's richer, more viscous, more concentrated than the same distillate aged anywhere else.
We don't claim it ages "faster." Seven years is seven years. But at seven years in Colorado, it drinks like something that's been aging for twelve.
Onyx & Amber is both an homage and a reminder.
Onyx represents our theory of single barrels. Two onyx stones found side by side in nature can look nearly identical on the outside—but crack them open, and what you'll find inside can be completely different. That's exactly what happens with two barrels that have lived side by side for a decade. You can't control it. You can't predict it. That's the point.
Amber is a reminder about patience. Amber takes a very long time to fossilize. Nothing at Onyx & Amber is released before it's ready—whether that's at seven years or twelve. The product tells us when it's done. Not the other way around.
64.63% ABV
75cl
