Quick Profile
- Age
- Aged 8 Years
- Style
- High-Proof / Barrel-Proof Whiskey
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Fruity, Floral, and Oak & Wood notes. Specific descriptors include dark fruit (fig, raisin, plum), dried cherry, honeysuckle, and toasted oak.
Proprietary wheated mash bill; black cherry, honeysuckle, crème brûlée, plum jam, and toasted oak spice.
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 →Age
This bottle carries a stated age of 8 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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