Willett 8 Year Old Wheated Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Grain to glass
- Non-chill filtered
- Limited
- Proof
- 108
- Age
- 8 yr
- Style
- BourbonKentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Street price
- $265.95
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“An eight-year wheater from the first seasons of Willett's rebuilt stills.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- caramel sauce and cinnamon cereal, honey, red grape, raspberry and raisin, with orange peel and a little licorice
- palate
- dark honey and caramel, ground cinnamon, red grape and blueberry, then vanilla, fennel and toasty, roasted oak
- finish
- moderate; honey, toasted grape and licorice hold with cinnamon and clove, narrowing to baker's chocolate and sweet oak
Mash bill
- Corn65%
- Wheat20%
- Malted barley15%
65% corn, 20% wheat, 15% malted barley. This is Willett's wheated recipe, created by master distiller Drew Kulsveen, with wheat in place of rye as the flavoring grain. The whiskey in this release was distilled in spring 2013, in the first years after the family restarted its stills.
- Cask
- New charred American oak, char #4
Why it's craft
Willett spent nearly three decades bottling other distilleries' whiskey before the Kulsveen family restarted distilling in Bardstown in 2012; this bourbon was made the following spring, so it is among the oldest whiskey the family has distilled itself. The family has made whiskey on the site since Thompson Willett founded the distillery in 1936, and still owns it. It is bottled at 108 proof without chill filtration.
Willett Distillery
Family-owned · Est. 1936 · Tours