Willett Family Estate Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 'Rare Release 12 YR, #4117 - Skurnik Selection - 9th Floor'
Willett Family Estate Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 'Rare Release 12 YR, #4117 - Skurnik Selection - 9th Floor'

Willett Family Estate Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 'Rare Release 12 YR, #4117 - Skurnik Selection - 9th Floor'

$895.00

  • Single barrel straight bourbon whiskey produced by Willett Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky
  • Bottled exclusively for Skurnik Wines & Spirits
  • Mash bill of 72% corn, 13% rye, and 15% malted barley
  • Produced with limestone-filtered, spring-fed water from a pond on the distillery estate
  • Sour mash fermented in stainless steel for approximately 3–5 days using a proprietary yeast strain
  • Twice distilled using an unspecified still regimen; Willett employs a column still made of copper and stainless steel and a Vendome copper pot still modeled after Willett’s original, patented pot still
  • Aged 12 years in new, char #4 American oak barrels from Independent Stave Company’s Kentucky cooperage
  • Barrel #4117 yielded 127 bottles
  • Non-chill filtered; bottled at a cask strength of 62.5% ABV
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Our Willett Barrel: How we picked it

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Our Willett Barrel: How we picked it

With Master Distiller Drew Kulsveen — grandson of founder Thompson Willett — Chris tasted across mash bills and distillation lots, narrowing to a barrel that shows how profound barrel-proof bourbon can be. He returned not only with this extraordinary whiskey, but also with a deeper sense of Willett’s family legacy and their patient, exacting craft.

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