Willett Family Estate Single Barrel 8 Year Bourbon Whiskey Barrel #5262

Barrel #5262 is an eight-year Willett Family Estate single barrel at 132 proof — hazmat Willett, one barrel of the Kulsveens' own Bardstown bourbon, uncut and unfiltered. 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. #5262 is Willett's corn-rye-barley mashbill, aged eight years in new #4-char oak in the Bardstown rickhouses — the upper floors, judging by the proof — and bottled from that one barrel at 132 proof without chill filtration. Expect eight years of Willett at brutal strength: a dense nose of dark caramel, old oak, leather, and dried cherry with cinnamon and char, a huge, chewy palate of toffee, tobacco, dark chocolate, and baking spice with real tannin, and a very long, hot, oaky finish that needs water and time. Honest note: eight-year Family Estate barrels above 130 proof are the ones Willett collectors chase hardest — gift-shop lottery bottles that trade for many times retail — and this one is here; for the serious Willett collector and the hazmat drinker. Neat, water, patience. Willett, #5262, eight years, 132.

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