Willett Family Estate 16 Year Old Single Barrel No. A38 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750ml
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The Willett Family Estate 16 Year Old Single Barrel No. A38 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a single cask from the rarest tier of the Willett universe: sixteen-year Kentucky straight bourbon, bottled barrel by barrel at full strength by the family-owned Willett Distillery of Bardstown, Kentucky.
Bourbon of this age under the Willett Family Estate label reaches back to the distillery's fabled sourcing era. Before the family relit its stills in 2012, Willett — operating as Kentucky Bourbon Distillers under Even Kulsveen, who took over in 1984 — built its reputation selecting extraordinary aged barrels from undisclosed Kentucky distilleries, and the oldest of those stocks became the backbone of the Family Estate label introduced in 2008. Sixteen-year barrels like No. A38 are those legendary picks at full maturity: deep, dark, oak-saturated whiskey the family judged worthy of its own name.
As with all Willett Family Estate single barrels, the whiskey is bottled at barrel proof, and because every cask is one of one, the proof and bottle count are unique to this barrel — the specifics for barrel No. A38 appear on the bottle's label, along with the bottle's number within the barrel. Willett itself publishes nothing about individual barrels; the label is the document of record, which is precisely how the famously reticent family has always operated.
Whisky Advocate has called Willett a premier non-distiller producer whose older Family Estate bottlings rank among the most chased in American whiskey, and sixteen-year barrels sit near the summit of that chase. For the collector, No. A38 is a finite proposition — one barrel, bottled once, never to be duplicated — from the house that made the single barrel an art form. What can be said with confidence is the pattern: barrels of this age surface rarely, in short runs, and almost never twice from the same stock.
- Size: 750ml
- Proof: 121.2 (60.6% ABV)
- Age: 16 years
- Origin: Kentucky
- Distillery: Bottled by Willett Distillery, Bardstown, KY (sourcing-era aged Kentucky stock; origin undisclosed)
- Whiskey Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey — single barrel, barrel proof
- Series: Willett Family Estate Single Barrel
- Selection: Barrel No. A38; bottle number stated on label
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