Lot 40 is 11 years. Willett is 4 years. Cannot compare complexity of such a difference of 11 vs 4... Willett is my Go To Rye Hands Down. Have 4 bottles on my shelf right now... BTW love your videos... Tom from Cincinnati
I caved and bought an $8 50ml of the Willett. It was sweet and had a wonderful aftertaste that lasted at least a minute or two. Really opened up with some water. I'll have to get a whole bottle now.
Oh man this makes me excited. I just picked up a willet 4y today and now I’m even more stoked to try it for the first time. Thanks for the review! Cheers!
Great review. I have tried these all, except I have the lot 40 12 year. I still keep coming back to the Willett. Lot 40 is good, no doubt, but if I could only have one, it would have to be the Willett.
Holy SHITE! Just bought my first bottle of Lot No. 40 standard (2012 Edition) on Monday and that inspired me to do a 3 bottle blind with Baby Saz and HW Double Rye. This was also my first taste of the Lot 40. I was very surprised how "elegant" (mild) the Lot 40 is. Very easy drinking. I was expecting BIG rye stuff. All at under $35. HW Double Rye is sooo gooood. Will have to look for these Top 2. FYI, guessing Dan edited this one given his reaction shot on Sample C "orange zest" at 6:03. Great work on those 4 and looks like you are going Cold Turkey on the pretzels??!! CHEERS!!
I think the Kentucky Owl should have been in there over the RR SiB Rye. Glad I still have a Lot 40 12 and a couple of 11's bunkered away. You should call in your contacts here or do a road trip to Ontario when the Alberta Premium cask strength Rye comes in around the same time as the L40 CS French Oak. $150 Cad for both bottles, like a buck 10 US.
On the nose in the Willett I get this moldy carpet smell, like a basement was recently carpeted and then there was some water intrusion and now there’s a slight moldy/new carpet smell down there. Then you’re chillin in the basement one day and you smell some vanilla baking smells coming from upstairs and while you’re waiting on the vanilla baked good you eat a few pickles.
nice video, would like to have seen cornerstone in place of Russell's, or Kentucky owl. Now I have to get a pilot friend who flies Into canada to try and get a cask strength lot 40, how hard are they to find in Canada? The regular lot 40 good but not in same class as the michters or willet
From what we've heard from our Canadian friends is that lot 40 cask is basically BTAC of the north. Also we'll do an over $100 rye shootout. KO and cornerstone will be in there.
nice, thank you. Finding barrel proof or toasted michters anything is next to impossible to find out here in California, unless you are willing to pay secondary pricing, cant afford that.
I believe you have that backwards, unless you are talking about the pot still, the Family Estate Bourbon is stupid rare. Either way, here in Denver, I can get Willett Family Estate rye any day.
@@PhatTrumpet2 Anytime bud! Haha, that's how rare it is! It's interesting you see the pot still sitting though, it's gotten fairly rare of late. I guess your market is the opposite of mine.
Ya'll have some aversion to spelling the "double Ts" at the end of brand names? Missed on both the WilleTT and the RusseLLs great video though, definitely one of my favorite channels these days. keep it up and let me know if you would be interested in any scotch samples to expand your horizons ;)
White pepper is stronger than black pink I think is strongest Cinnamon is astringent like tree bark. Hint there guys. Lol ginger is crazy hot like horseradish but more better
Ginger is exactly like a horseradish (I think they are same family) but so much better. My first kitchen job the chef was took me under his wing and always made me taste ingredients raw one day he handed me a chunk of ginger holy smoke was it hot 🥵
My personal preference is not having hosts who are already drunk before the tastings and critique. I'm 34 if that helps. Probably not the demo for this channel but here's my comment.
