Weller special reserve8/14/2023 ![]() ![]() This brand new bourbon from Heaven Hill celebrates the five brothers who started the distillery back in 1935. Five Brothers Small Batch Bourbon - Taste 1 Heaven Hill That’s fine, by the way! This makes a good cocktail. This really is built as a mixing bourbon and that’s what shined through the most on the sip today. Nearest’s Master Blender, Victoria Eady-Butler, builds the blend according to classic flavor notes first put into Tennessee whiskey by her ancestor, Nearest Green, back in the 1800s. This whiskey is created from a batch of barrels that are a minimum of seven years old. Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch - Taste 2 Uncle Nearest That’s too bad as there’s a lot to like on this sip’s first half.Ħ. I went back for another sip and found the same thing. Then it hit that mid-point and just kind of disappeared on the palate. That whiskey is then proofed with local Oregon water to 88 proof for bottling. The juice is a four grain (66 percent corn, 23 percent rye, six percent wheat, and four percent malted barley) bourbon made from two and three-year-old barrels blended with 12-year-old barrels. This bourbon is a mix of Oregon craft and Indiana mastery. It’s also a little watery on the end, which kind of killed it for me. The mash bill is a four-grain recipe of corn, rye, wheat, and malted barley that’s aged for an undisclosed amount of time before watering it all down to 80 proof and bottling. The juice is from an “undisclosed” source but from Indiana (gotta be MGP, obviously). This celebrity whiskey comes from Vampire Diaries actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder. Brothers Bond Bourbon - Taste 8 Brothers Bond We Tasted Bourbon Whiskeys ‘Double-Blind’ And Tried To Guess Each Bottleġ0.The Best Ten-Year-Old Bourbon Whiskeys, Tasted Blind And Ranked.The 100 Best Whiskeys Our Head Drinks Writer Tasted In 2021.Every Winning Bourbon From Our 2021 Taste Tests, Blind Tasted And Re-Ranked.The 50 Best Bourbon Whiskeys Of 2021, Ranked. ![]() The question becomes: among $30 bourbons is it average, above average, or below average? Let’s dive in and see if anything in this bracket can beat it.Īlso Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Bourbon Posts Of The Last Six Months This is about bottles of equal integrity and generally similar prices.Īt the end of the day, Weller Special Reserve is a $30 bottle of bourbon. Each bottle has a 40 to 48 percent ABV (Weller is 45 percent ABV) to keep things in the same flavor wheelhouse - blindly tasting high proof or single barrel expressions alongside an entry-level bottle isn’t the point of this tasting. To that end, I picked standard bourbons in the $20 to $60 range. High-end bottle shops are going to charge two to three times more. In fact, if you’re lucky enough to visit the Buffalo Trace Distillery on the right day, you can still get it at that price there. It’s fairly low proof, and it should cost $30 per bottle. For a little context, Weller Special Reserve is a blend of wheated bourbon barrels (from the same stocks as Pappy Van Winkle) from the famed Buffalo Trace Distillery. Yes, I’m starting at the “bottom” of the Weller brand with their entry-level bottle and we’ll move up the ladder from there. To answer that question, I’m conducting a blind taste test with bottles that are in the same league as Weller Special Reserve. Does Weller deserve the hype - and price hike - it recieves? ![]() Today, all Weller expressions are fully allocated (only certain bars and stores get them) and the price is inflated well beyond its MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price).īut… is it actually any good? Seriously. The bourbon brand skyrocketed to prominence - and astronomical prices - by being the “Poor man’s Pappy” about a decade ago. Even if you’re only tangentially aware of the bourbon world, you’ve likely heard someone whisper about “Weller” before. ![]()
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