Weller Original Wheated Bourbon 12 year 700ml

Twelve years is a long nap for a wheated bourbon, and Weller 12 Year wears every one of them well. Buffalo Trace Distillery swaps rye for wheat in the mash, and that grain softness plus a decade-plus of Kentucky oak lands as lanolin, almond, and creamed corn on the nose, a layered and moderately sweet mid-palate, and a long, oaky, intensely smooth finish at 90 proof. This 700ml bottling is the export-market format of an allocation staple whose wheated recipe also raises some of the most hunted bottles in bourbon. Sip it neat after dinner — this is a bottle for slow evenings, not cocktails.

How to drink Weller 12 Year

One large cube is fine if 90 proof feels hot to you, but the wheat is soft enough that most people find it drinks fine at room temperature straight from the pour. Compare it side by side with the standard Weller Special Reserve if you want to taste exactly what the extra years add.

Bourbon90 proof · Mash bill: Buffalo Trace wheated mash bill (wheat as secondary grain, percentages undisclosed) · New charred American oak · Kentucky