Revisiting one of the most celebrates bourbons of 2019.
The Story
I have one 6 ounce sample for this review. I've had two previous pours. Two in a row, in Covington Kentucky, on election night 2018. The cost is one thing, but the rarity is the real obstacle. Is it still available? At publishing time (November 2020), can you even find it....who knows?
I see it on the internet for 1,500 dollars. Pro life tip, a great bike goes for 1,500 dollars. Get some exercise. How's the kids college saving account? Going on vacation this year? Great bourbons are the patron saint of dusty bars and the front porch. They aren't mortgage payment size e-commerce purchases.
Someone I love won a bottle in the Ohio Bourbon Lottery and sent me a sample. So, here we are. Me staring at a bourbon sample of WLW, thinking back to my last two pours, like some kind of lost hopeless romantic. Knowing that this pour will be the last for this average Joe. I was going to share my sample, but my friend has COVID and can't taste anything.
There will always be more great bourbon, but more time is not assured.
I have a love/hate relationship with bottles like this. Time marches on. Money comes and goes. Your hands pour the bourbon that will soon be gone. The bourbon pros understand this and they just drink the good stuff without hesitation. There will always be more great bourbon, but more time is not assured. I'm still working on obtaining that level of zen about polishing off unicorns. Anyway to the bourbon....
Top tier bourbons like WLW check every box, of course. They have the complexity, smoothness, caramel flavors, and all the intangibles. It's really difficult to find bourbons that can do it all. For me, when I drink WLW, I sit in my bar stool and rock back and forth in the grips of so kind of jolly breakdown, repeating...This is so good!
I actually find that the end result of really good bourbon is having a great conversation with a friend. So next time you're in town, when we can see each other again, hopefully in the spring... I'll open this sample and use it right, on some happy day.
Score: I would walk 379 Kentucky miles to find this bourbon and to see you all again.
William Larue Weller (2019) Photo Gallery
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