Willett Pot Still Reserve Bourbon Whiskey

Willett Pot Still Reserve is the bourbon in the bottle shaped like a pot still — the Kulsveen family's flagship from Bardstown, small batch at 94 proof, and the most recognizable decanter in Kentucky. The Willett family built the distillery on the hill outside Bardstown in 1936; it went dark in the 1980s, and Even Kulsveen — who married Martha Willett — kept the name alive bottling sourced Kentucky stock as Kentucky Bourbon Distillers under Noah's Mill, Rowan's Creek, and Willett, until his son Drew restarted the stills in 2012. Pot Still Reserve launched in 2008 as a single barrel and moved to small batch around 2015; today it's believed to be Willett's own distillate — corn, rye, and malted barley from the family's mashbill — aged in the Bardstown rickhouses and bottled at 94 proof in the copper-pot-shaped glass. Breaking Bourbon: summer fruit, ripe cherry, and citrus with vanilla, dry oak, buttered popcorn, and honey on the nose; honey and caramel against spice and zesty citrus on a lighter palate; and a finish of surging rye spice and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Drinkhacker and Malt Review both note the bottle outshining the whiskey. Honest note: reviewers call it average and the bottle iconic — both are true, and it's the gift bourbon that never gets returned; Willett Family Estate is where the distillery's serious whiskey lives. Neat, on a cube, or on display. Willett, the pot still.

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