Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Estate Small Batch

• Small batch straight bourbon whiskey produced by Willett Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky
• Blend of two mash bills: 1) 72% corn, 13% rye, 15% malted barley, aged 5 years and comprising 80% of the blend and 2) 52% corn, 38% rye, 10% malted barley, aged 4 years and comprising 20% of the blend
• Produced with limestone-filtered, spring-fed water from the distillery estate
• Sour mash fermented in stainless steel for approximately 3–5 days using a proprietary yeast strain
• Twice distilled using a column still made of copper and stainless steel and a Vendome copper pot still modeled after Willett’s original, patented pot still
• Barrel entry proof of 125
• Aged a minimum 4 years in new char #4 American oak barrels from Independent Stave Company’s Kentucky cooperage
• Each batch blended from approximately 50 barrels
• Non-chill filtered; bottled at cask strength (ABV will vary batch to batch)

Willett’s Single Barrel Family Estate Bourbon elicits excitement the world over, each bottling highly prized for its limited nature and indisputable quality. So imagine the buzz when the distillery announced the debut of a small batch bourbon, bottled under the Family Estate label, but vatted 50 barrels at a time for a more widely available release. For this expression, Master Distiller Drew Kulsveen blends the family’s original bourbon mash bill with a small proportion of high-rye bourbon, and—as is done with the single barrel Family Estate—bottles at cask strength.