Tastes

Got a store pick from R&J in Wichita. Heavy vanilla and orange peel on the nose. The palate was a mix of butterscotch, slight oak, creamy sugar, and salted caramel on a medium long finish. Surprisingly drinkable at 110 proof with little water needed.

Cinnamon on the palate. Hot on the front with loads of cinnamon through the middle. Medium long finish. Makes a pretty interesting component for a julep.

Unique bourbon that almost tastes like it was finished in a port cask. A smooth start with vanilla, which then shoots up in sweetness of apple pie toward the end. Easily as good as its brother, the Weller 12, but in a different way completely. And much easier to find.

Tasted blind next to Old Weller Antique and Elmer T. Lee. Not as bold and unique as the OWA, and not as smooth as the ETL. It played the middle, with a vanilla sweet start and some oak in the back end, made for a great pour, but got lost between the other two, and finished last among the three. Not worth the $100 secondary going rate, but easily worth a retail $35, if you’re ever that lucky...