Willett 10 Year Single Barrel Bourbon #2894 For LeNell's

This 10 year old single barrel bourbon from Willett was crafted from a mashbill of 72% corn, 13% rye and 15% malted barley. It was matured in warehouse A on the 4th floor and was bottled at 65.8% Abv exclusively for LeNell's. A legendary name in the bourbon industry, LeNell's was founded by LeNell Camacho Santa Ana. Now a true industry icon, LeNell opened her first store in 2003 in Brooklyn and rapidly built the location into a premier American whiskey destination. She frequently collaborated with brands on special releases for the store and throughout her six year period of operating in Brooklyn, she established LeNell's as one of the greatest liquor stores on the planet. It was through her collaboration with KBD, otherwise known as Willett, that she would establish her own brand of rye whiskey called Red Hook Rye. This mature rye whiskey was sourced from Willett who held an extremely deep archive of well matured American whiskies. Willett had stopped distilling themselves in the 1980s amid a serious downturn in the market, instead pivoting to being a bottler of other distillery's products. This meant that they had slowly established a serious collection of barrels from various distilleries across Kentucky who were either closing amid the industry downturn, or rapidly scrambling to sell barrels at very low prices. LeNell contacted KBD and the company was more than happy to provide very old barrels of rye whiskey for her Red Hook Rye brand. She chose barrels that were 23 & 24 years of age, a set of ages that are unheard of in rye whiskey. This series of bottlings has become mythic amongst whiskey collectors and routinely breaks auction records each time one is unearthed. It is heralded as the greatest rye, if not the greatest American whiskey, ever produced.