Wheatley Vodka

Good clean vodka. Doesn’t finish oily like a certain famous Texas vodka...

From the venerable master distiller himself, Harlen Wheatley, comes a namesake vodka in Wheatley from the Buffalo Trace distillery. Made primarily from wheat and with other grain, this vodka is distilled no less than 10 times on what they call a “micro still” and then triple filtered, leaving a very pure neutral spirit. Sampled neat from a Glencairn, nothing added. Color is completely clear. On the nose the vodka is perfectly neutral and soft, with only a faint ethanol scent and burn to let you know that the clear liquid isn’t just water sitting in the glass. Very clean scent. Like a wheated spirit should be, the taste is primarily sweet, but not overly so by any means, and again a very neutral light ethanol in flavor at first. Then a wonderfully soft sweet vanilla and light warming spice come forward. This vodka goes down so easy it’s almost dangerous! Very clean and crisp profile, as I suppose it should be after distilling the heck out of it! Overall, fantastic vodka from the masters at BT distillery. A great clean neutral base to mix with anything you choose. Cheers!

I’m by no means a vodka expert. My ratings are purely based on personal enjoyment. That being said, this is a perfect example of the “absence” of flavor...which makes this particular vodka extremely dangerous. It drinks like water with the faintest waft of vanilla appearing on the nose only. It’s 41% alcohol and I get almost zero heat from it. Crazy! Anyway, I’m sure it’s great in the vodka world...but probably only good for getting REALLY inebriated, REALLY fast in my world.

very smooth. great martini