Weller Antique Reserve Original Barrel Proof 10 Year Old 4/5 Quart 110 Proof Bourbon / Stitzel Weller

Weller Antique Reserve Original Barrel Proof 10 Year Old 4/5 Quart 110 proof / Stitzel Weller
William Larue Weller was born into a distilling family in Kentucky in 1825, and launched his W.L. Weller brand in 1849. Originally a rectification business (creating ‘whiskey’ using neutral spirit, colouring and flavourings), this all changed with the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 and the death of Weller two years later. The company was left in the hands of the fiercely passionate Julian ‘Pappy’ Van Winkle I who, having steered it safely through the wreckage of National Prohibition, established Old Weller alongside the newly acquired Old Fitzgerald labels and the flagship brands for the new Stitzel-Weller distillery in 1933. It was produced there for over 60 years, eventually being sold to the Sazerac Company in 1999, who distill it at Buffalo Trace using Pappy’s recipe to this day.
This is an incredible old example of Weller’s Antique Reserve, distilled at Stitzel-Weller and bottled in 1965.