Willett XCF Rye Whiskey 7 Jahre, 0,7L 51,7%

Willett XCF Rye Whiskey 7 years, 0.7L 51.7%

Willett - A special whiskey from a special distillery!
Several hundred euros are due if you want to buy one of the sought-after older bottlings of a Willett Rye Whiskey. Old bottles, such as the Willett Rye Whiskey 23 years, are very popular with collectors and speculators and are now only occasionally found at auctions. The hype surrounding these products is not unjustified, however, because anyone who has tried an older Willett at least once in their life knows about the extraordinary quality of these whiskeys.

Nevertheless, you obviously don't want to spend half your monthly salary on a bottle of Rye, which is why you should also consider the current bottlings from Willett! A very special bottle that has only recently been on the market is the Willett XCF Rye Whiskey 7 years!

Before we tell you more about this strictly limited bottle, we would like to take a quick look at the history of the distillery.

The history of the Willett Distillery
After the end of American Prohibition, the thirst for high-quality whiskeys was great. So it was definitely the right time when the brothers Thompson and John T. Willett opened the Willett distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1936. The distillery was able to establish itself successfully with its products in the decades that followed, but slipped into a crisis in the 1970s when global demand for bourbon fell sharply. In the 1980s, Willett ultimately had to close due to weak sales. However, one man continued to believe in the success of the distillery - the successful entrepreneur Even Kulsveen, husband of Martha Willett. He therefore bought the shares in the Willett Distillery from the other family members. Through his company Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, he continued to produce whiskey according to Willett's recipe and to store and bottle it in Bardstown. In 2012, he finally had a new distillery built on the old site, which has since then produced high-quality bourbon and rye whiskey with a pot still and a column still.

The Willett XCF Rye Whiskey 7 years
The Willett XCF Rye is part of the new "Exploratory Cask Finish" series from the Willett Distillery and matured for a total of seven years in charred American white oak barrels. It was then allowed to mature for around 90 days in French Curacao barrels. These were most likely barrels of the popular orange liqueur Grand Marnier.

The mash bill of this excellent whiskey consisted of 95% rye and 5% malted barley. It was finally bottled at a strong 51.7% vol.

On the nose, the chestnut-colored whiskey shows intense notes of oak, strong caramel, orange and spices. On the palate, the Willett XCF is slightly sweet with aromas of orange and other citrus fruits. The aftertaste is characterized by a clear rye style and is of considerable length.

Please note: only a few bottles in stock!