Willett Family Estate 11 Year Single Barrel "This Is The West Coast Way" #9209

This Is The West Coast Way is an eleven-year Willett Family Estate single barrel picked for California — barrel #9209, one barrel of the Kulsveens' own Bardstown bourbon, uncut at 112.4 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 on the label, the purple wax for bourbon; private selections carry a name chosen by the picker. #9209 is Willett's corn-rye-barley mashbill, aged eleven years in new #4-char oak in the Bardstown rickhouses, and bottled from that one barrel at 112.4 proof without chill filtration — a lower-floor barrel, judging by the proof, which tends to mean more balance and less heat. Expect eleven years of Willett in a polished frame: a nose of caramel, dried cherry, old oak, and leather with cinnamon, a rich, layered palate of toffee, tobacco, dark chocolate, and baking spice with mature tannin, and a very long, warm, oaky finish. Honest note: eleven-year Family Estate barrels are lottery bottles at the distillery and rarer still as private picks — for the serious Willett collector, and the drinker who wants the depth without the hazmat. Neat, a drop of water, time. Willett, #9209, the West Coast way.

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