Willett Family Estate 4 Year Old Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey

Willett Family Estate 4 Year Cask Strength is the Purple Top — the bottle bourbon collectors line up for outside the Bardstown gift shop — one barrel of the Kulsveens' own bourbon, uncut and unfiltered, this one at 123.6 proof. The Willett family built the distillery on the hill outside Bardstown in 1936; Drew Kulsveen restarted the stills in 2012, and Family Estate Single Barrel is the house's own distillate at its purest — each bottle from one barrel, the age and proof handwritten on the label, the wax color telling you what's inside; purple is bourbon. The 4 Year is Willett's corn-rye-barley mashbill, aged four years in new #4-char oak in the Bardstown rickhouses, and bottled from a single barrel at full cask strength — 123.6 proof for this barrel — without chill filtration. Expect the young Willett signature at strength: a nose of caramel, toasted vanilla, dark brown sugar, and roasted nuts with baking spice and oak, a palate of caramel and maple into cinnamon, cocoa, leather, and toasted oak, and a long, warm, spiced finish — big, bold, and unmistakably Willett. Honest note: four-year Purple Tops are the findable Family Estate — the older ones are lottery bottles — and every barrel differs; for the Willett collector, the barrel-proof drinker, and the person who wants to taste what the family's own stills make. Neat, a drop of water. Willett, Purple Top, four years.

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