Willett Family Estate 11 Year Single Barrel Rye 2364 ‘Best For Last’ is a private-selection barrel of Willett’s own rye, aged eleven years at the family-owned Willett Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky and bottled uncut at 121.4 proof. Willett restarted its own stills in 2012 after decades as a bottler, and its rye quickly became one of the most sought-after whiskeys in the country. An eleven-year barrel at this proof represents the oldest and most powerful end of what Willett releases.
Willett’s rye is made from two mash bills, a high-rye recipe of 74% rye and a low-rye recipe of 51%, and single barrels show whichever recipe the barrel holds at full intensity. At 121.4 proof and eleven years, expect deep dark caramel, dried fruit, leather, tobacco and rich oak layered over Willett’s signature dill, cherry and baking-spice rye character, with a finish that carries on for minutes. Private barrels are named by the groups that select them, and Best For Last suggests this one was the pick of the day. Willett single barrels sell out on release and command steep secondary prices.
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