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Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon 6 Year
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
November 28, 2019 (edited December 8, 2019)
Neat. Neck pour. Store pick. Intense amount of fruit on the front of the nose. Cherry and strawberries. Intense vanilla and toffee. Very little oak but a good amount of spice on the tail end.
Thinner feel than I was expecting for a barrel proof. Extremely alcohol forward on the tongue. I don’t typically feel that much burn. Working around the alcohol and those fruit flavors dominate the tongue with their sweetness in combination with the spice. Burnt caramel. Intense cherry and vanilla. This is potent stuff. Intense flavors. Getting a deep chocolate on the legs now. Essentially a cherry cordial linking these flavors together.
This is my first WFE Bourbon experience. The nose struck me as a bit generic at first and the alcohol forward nature was disappointing me. But the intense flavors throughout won me over big time. Really delicious. Left my mouth numb though. Loses points for that aspect, but I now understand the hype on these bottles.
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I am doing an A/B test of WFE vs Noah’s Mill. Noah’s Mill is no where close. NM is much more peanut forward and almost flavorless coming off the intensity of the WFE. Hard to imagine these come from the same company even.