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Whiskey Quickie: Blackened x Willett Straight Rye Finished in Madeira Casks

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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On this Whiskey Quickie by Bourbon Pursuit, we review Blackened x Willett Straight Rye Finished in Madeira Casks. This non-age stated rye is 109.6 proof and $140 MSRP. Let us know what you think. Cheers! Whiskey Quickie is brought to you by Barrell Bourbon. Learn more at BarrellBourbon.com. DISCLAIMER: The whiskey in this review was provided to us at no cost courtesy of the spirit producer. We were not compensated by the spirit producer for this review. This is our honest opinion based on what we tasted. Please drink responsibly.

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Hey, everyone, we're back with another whiskey quickie, and today, this is a little bit of a special

0:58.5

project because we're taking a look at Blackened Buy Willett, X Willett, and collaboration with

1:05.0

Willett. I don't really know what it is, but it's Blackened X Willett. I don't know how you're

1:08.5

supposed to actually say it, but I'll give you a little bit of background here.

1:12.0

So Black End, of course, is a project from the late great Dave Pickerel and Metallica, but is now headed by their Master Distiller and Blender Rob Dietrich.

1:22.3

And this is the new Masters of Whiskey series. And this is the inaugural release where it's looking at blackened as long as well as with Willett, Kentucky straight-Rye whiskey, finished in Madeira Cask. And of course, this is done in collaboration with Drew Colesveen over at Willett. So it starts off with a base of low-ri and high-ri whiskey recipes that were hand- were hand selected by Rob and Drew from the Willett

1:45.2

Family Estate Reserve selection. These were aged for six and a half years on average. And after

1:50.8

the rye whiskeys were married together, they were then finished in Madeir casks for up to 14 weeks,

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where they underwent the proprietary black noise sonic enhancement, where the finishing barrels where they say are

2:02.9

pummeled by the low hertz frequencies of Metallica's music and Drew and Rob picked out the playlist.

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And we've been to Metallica. There's some serious like noise going on. So I guarantee there's an

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impact. You feel give me fire. We'll see if we desire.

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Oh boy.

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Yep.

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