William Larue Weller Bourbon bottled 2010

Not sure what happened with the review title there - this was for a William Larue Weller 2010 bottling.

Great whiskey, and either hard and/or expensive to get some. There is no rye in it, though.

Indeed, no rye yet somehow has a lot of rye characteristics in my opinion, hence making it quite an intriguing bourbon.

@OJK, the best wheated bourbons have some spiciness, as do virtually all rye bourbons. How similar are the two varieties of spiciness? To me, a little, not a lot. What is extremely rye-bourbon-like about William Larue Weller is the intensity of the flavours, particularly of the medium and medium-low pitched flavours, something you don't get with most wheated bourbons. In addition to William Larue Weller the only two other wheated bourbons that I know of that have that intensity of that part of the range of flavours are Parkers Heritage 10 yo wheated and Old Weller Antique 107. (and I might add, the brand new Buffalo Trace Pappy Van Winkle 15 distillate, which tastes much lower on the pitch profiles than did the old Stitzel Weller Pappy Van Winkle 15. New PVW15, though, doesn't have medium to low flavours from grain-origin spice, but from much stronger wood flavours. The two sets of flavours are very obviously different from one another.)

Thank you for your very in depth analysis as always @Victor! As ever much to learn, especially from someone with as much knowledge and experience of rye and bourbon as you - cheers to Connosr for giving the platform to share all that knowledge!

And thank you, @OJK for a very nice review!