None of the names you see gracing bottles in the Buffalo Trace catalog were made up. Add your business and list your beers to show up here! The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in W. Weller Special Reserve Bourbon Whiskey and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.
All Buffalo Trace Distillery whiskeys are distributed "on allocation. " The mash bills, or recipes, and names for these beloved bourbons were sold by Diageo in the '90s. Answer: If you can find the Weller 12 Year for around $100 you're just plain silly for not buying it. The Weller Special Reserve mash bills are cooked, fermented, and distilled at the distillery. The Weller Special Reserve is more grain-forward, woody, and hot, whereas the Weller 12 Year is leather, oak, and chocolate. In addition to being Insider Reviews' mattress expert, James has extensively covered robot vacuums, air conditioners, air purifiers, and more within the HVAC space. The Special Reserve plays really well with the richness of the Carpano Antica. Why go through the trouble? The hype of "poor mans Pappy" have driven this beyond it's value and it's more of a trophy these days. While this bottle should be around $100, its rarity pushes prices up. Buffalo Trace was initially released in 1999 as the new flagship bourbon of Buffalo Trace Distillery after it was renovated and rechristened. Weller Special Reserve has remarkable smoothness, flavors, and nose, but Buffalo Trace will be a great choice over Special Reserve for its price and availability. Weller Special Reserve retails for $25, but I've never seen it for sale at that price in Michigan, where I live.
According to, Weller Special Reserve is aged four to seven years and chill-filtered before bottled. It is a small batch barrel selection based on casks hand-picked by Wild Turkey's father and son master distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell. True to the wheated bourbon form, it is as soft on the nose as it will be on the palate. 2020 Silver Medal – World Whiskies Awards. In 2014, the release of William Larue Weller had less than 4000 bottles. Rarity: Findable at high-end whiskey bars that have other BTAC bottles, but not many other places. Those clumps are eliminated by the chilled filtration system, keeping your whiskey looking clear. This runs against how most seasoned drinkers describe rye-based bourbons. If you find a bottle called Ancient Ancient Age 10 Year, you should buy it immediately — the bottle was a Kentucky exclusive popular with bourbon nerds that was discontinued years back. I'm not going to call Weller Special reserve a consolation prize, as it's fine wheated bourbon, but Marcus Lemonis from CNBC's The Profit would call this the entry level product in the Weller product ladder. He re-named the distillery after himself and it remained the way for almost 100 years before being renamed again. Appearance: Reddish gold in the bottle wheat colored in the glass, on swirling leaves a even coat on the glass with long legs developing.
So, we know that both the W. Weller 12 Year are wheated bourbons, meaning the mash bill contains wheat rather than rye. The first bottle was aged 10 years in oak from Mongolia and tastes like baking spices, nuts and a lot of wood. It's one of those spirits that you ask for at a popular liquor store and they tell you they're sold out, but then you find a bunch of bottles gathering dust at a random grocery store. Support The Whiskey Shelf by Buying Me A Shot. Chill-filtered is exactly as it sounds; it means that the filtration process is done at a chilled temperature. The Antique Collection is also distributed in the fall. Regardless, the shifting of brands is NOT stopping the Bourbon masses from scooping these up as soon as they hit the shelves. This is a silly impact of whiskey culture and I'm not here for it. And it shouldn't surprise you that I'm left wanting more. A wheated bourbon still uses 51% or more corn, but the very common ingredient of rye in a bourbon is replaced with wheat. Buffalo Trace Distillery (Sazerac) · Frankfort, KY. Sell great beer? Stir, strain up over a Maraschino Cherry. Notable: the bourbon drinker's holy grail find — re-sale prices can reach well over $1, 000 a bottle.