Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

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Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby beans316 » Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:07 pm

Hello just joined after lurking forever , anyway a question that keeps comming up at my local brick/mortar shop is willett 12 yr is going to slap a pappy 12 yr on there label and sell at a higher price . Anybody else here this rumor or is it just BS ? Thanks for any comments
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Re: Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby pierceography » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:41 am

Willett? That sounds very odd. Did you perhaps mean Weller?
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Re: Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby 393foureyedfox » Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:14 pm

there....their

here....hear

willet....weller
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Re: Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby rl1856 » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:31 pm

Pappy and (some) Weller come from the same wheated mashbill at Buffalo Trace. Pappy gets the best of the aged wheated barrels. Weller 12y is the same stock, but not up to the grade of Pappy. So yes- some "Weller" will get a Pappy label and a much higher price. In fact this is exactly how Pappy has been bottled since the last of the original Stitzell Weller / Pappy barrels were consumed.

Source- recent trip to Buffalo Trace Distillery and informal remarks by Julian Van Winkle made a recent bourbon event he attended.

Willett on the other hand is not a volume distiller, their specialty is aquireing and blending of unique barrels to come up with a nice end product. Personally, I have been impressed by Willett (and Noah's Creek also a Willett product) over the years.
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Re: Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby M6Coupe » Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:00 am

I'm sure it has been done.

Craigslist Pappy?

Anytime you can get that much money for a product on the secondary market, there will be pressure on sellers to cheat.
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Re: Willett 12 yr switched to pappy ??

Unread postby Squire » Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:33 pm

Of course it's being done by BT. What sets the Pappy line apart is barrel selection and artificially limiting the supply.
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