W. L. Weller reviews

Well, it's a day after July 4, but today is when my bottle of W.L. Weller 12 came in - so the review comes in a day late...oh well!W.L. Weller 12 Year Old is a Kentucky wheated bourbon - meaning wheat…

Let us return to the Buffalo Trace Distillery for this W.L. Weller. It is special because, next to the obligatory 51% corn, the small grains are not rye, but wheat and it also matured for 12 years, which…

Nose: You can smell the wheat, like buttered wheat crackers, creamy and buttery corn, cooked vinilla, some burnt sugars and supermarket marshmallow's melted over a fire.Palate: Big and Powerful (it is…

I like this one. Its full of flavor although it is rough that's part of its charm I dare you to drink a full shot of it and not cough afterwards.

Ok, I don't submit many reviews here. But when I do write a review, it's because I've just sampled a spectacular whiskey and I just gotta share. Either spectacularly bad (like AZ High Spirits Mesquite…

Nose: Total banana-bread goodness. Dark chocolate truffle, burnt marshmallow, corn candy, honey and ginger. Just a festival of sweet indulgence, yet underneath there's a level of complexity that really…

The Weller line of bourbons is produced by the Buffalo Trace Distillery of Frankfort, Kentucky. The Wellers are “wheated” bourbons, meaning that the “small” grain in the mash bill is wheat rather than…

This is third post featuring bottles from the B.Trace Antique collection bottle share organized by Sjoerd.This baby is a wheated Bourbon, and as such offers a milder , yet rich Bourbon not as bity as the…

Since they had to deal with the title "Antique," the bottlers chose the ancient parchment, faux script font, line drawings of the founder and simulated stained edging around the label -- much like bad…

William Larue Weller is considered to be an early pioneer in the Kentucky Bourbon business. He has been credited with being the first to use wheat in the mash bill (recipe) instead of rye.This is a…