Willett Family Wheated 8-Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Willett’s newest addition to their hall-of-fame lineup is this 8-year wheated bourbon and I managed to score exactly two bottles..that’s it. That’s how limited the new release is. This is by far the hottest item in their outstanding lineup, and their dulling out so little of it is classic Willett. Never compromising quality just to meet demand.

They built this beauty with a mash bill of 65% corn, 20% wheat, and 15% malted barley, using limestone-filtered, spring-fed water straight from the estate. The grain ferments sour mash style in stainless steel for 3–5 days with a proprietary yeast, then gets twice distilled through a column still and a Vendome copper pot still modeled after Willett’s original patented design. Eight years aging in char #4 American oak from Independent Stave Company’s Kentucky cooperage, bottled non-chill filtered at 54% ABV—that’s a serious whiskey with serious credentials and serious scarcity. Two bottles. That’s it.