Laws Centennial Wheat Whiskey
Barrel #WW69
Distilled: August, 2015
Bottled: October 2020
Cask Strength, UCF
100% Centennial White Wheat
123.6 Proof

If you loved the cask strength rye we put out from AD Laws earlier this year, get ready for another special cask. This wheat whiskey was the perfect sister cask for us. Wonderful pairing with the rye, two completely different whiskeys, both showing an unmistakeable similarity in the production methods and signature style.

The nose is like sticking your head in a honey bun. Lovely brown butter, baking bread, honey, jam, molasses, deep deep wheat like that brown crusty loaf straight out of the oven. It has some of that same wild tree bark / tobacco stuff going on as the rye. But instead of mint and garden herbs, we have nutmeg and cloves, a little cinnamon. Some real awesome sweets going on. Melting marshmallows, Hershey's Kisses, hot apple cider. Those notes may not make any sense together until you take a whiff.

Another serious contender at over 123 proof, the smoothness of this one on the tongue is unbelievable. Super thick, like melting chocolate/nougat on the palate. It's gooey sweetness, with a big backing of charred oak and baking bread.

The finish is long, sweet, and rich, with no burn. Another DANGEROUS bottle considering the proof. If you leave this one on the table, it will be gone quick, and folks will be lit!

Wheat whiskey is so good, and it's kind of amazing that more companies don't produce it. This stuff is sooo much better than the couple of mass produced wheat whiskeys on the market. It's obviously the result of obsessive attention to detail, folks with a real palate for whiskey, and putting great product in the barrel enough years ago for it to be REALLY good. We hope you love these two barrels as much as we do. We already reserved two sister barrels, a rye and a wheat from the same batches as these two for next year. You'll want to have all four, so we recommend "one for the shelf and one for the throat!"