Willett Family Estate Single Barrel 11 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey #1044 'Sip Happens'

Sip Happens is an eleven-year Willett Family Estate single barrel — barrel #1044, one of 157 bottles, hand-bottled at 100 proof — one barrel of the Kulsveens' own Bardstown bourbon. 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 on the label, the purple wax for bourbon; private selections carry a name chosen by the picker. #1044 is Willett's corn-rye-barley mashbill, aged eleven years in hand-selected white oak in the Bardstown rickhouses, and hand-bottled from that one barrel at 100 proof, numbered out of 157. Expect eleven years of Willett at a proof that lets the age lead: a nose of caramel, dried cherry, old oak, and leather with cinnamon, a rich, rounded palate of toffee, tobacco, dark chocolate, and baking spice with mature tannin and no burn, and a long, warm, oaky finish. Honest note: an eleven-year Family Estate at 100 proof is the rare Willett you can sip without water — 157 bottles, this is one, and it will not be repeated; for the serious Willett collector and the drinker who wants age over heat. Neat, in a Glencairn. Willett, #1044, Sip Happens.

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