Willett Family Estate Small Batch Bourbon (4 Year)
Quick Profile
- Age
- Aged 4 Years (Blend of high-corn & high-rye mash bills)
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey, Small Batch
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Sweet & Dessert-Like, Spice, and Oak & Wood notes. Specific descriptors include butterscotch, cinnamon, toasted oak, and vanilla.
Commingles sweet and spicy Willett bourbon recipes; rich butterscotch, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, and toasted oak.
What Defines This Bottle
High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
Bottled at or near its barrel-entry strength, with no or minimal water added; concentrated flavor and higher perceived heat.
Bottled at, or close to, the proof it actually comes out of the barrel at -- little or no water added before bottling. That means more of the barrel's own character reaches the glass undiluted, at the cost of a proof that can run well past standard bottling strength. See Rickhouse Science for how barrel placement and time change what's actually in that barrel to begin with, and the Proof & Dilution Calculator for what cutting a barrel-proof pour down actually does to it.
Learn about High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey →Small Batch
Whiskey blended from a limited, curated group of barrels; an industry term with no fixed legal batch size, describing a blending approach rather than a recipe or flavor profile.
A blending choice made at the very end of the process -- barrels are selected and married together in a deliberately limited group rather than a distillery's full, larger-scale blending vat. Bottle matches here come from a bottle's own name explicitly naming it a small batch release, not an independent barrel-count field -- see this style's own Explore Bottles section for that caveat. See Process for how the same mash bill and barrel choices upstream of this step shape what ends up in that group of barrels to begin with.
Learn about Small Batch →Age
This bottle carries a stated age of 4 years.
Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Willett Distillery -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Charred New American White Oak (Char #4 standard).
- Warehouse Notes
- Historic stone-foundation, timber-and-iron warehouses perched on the high ridges of Bardstown.
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