TNbourbon
10-12-2005, 13:04
Well, though the end of this eBay auction was very irritating (a last-second -- and only other -- bid came in just 43 cents under my maximum, bumping my final cost $40+ http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/images/graemlins/hot.gif!), I'm still tickled to get this Old Weller for several reasons:
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It was distilled in Spring 1940, bottled in Fall 1948 and BIB;
I didn't realize W.L. Weller Special Reserve was ever anything other than 7 years old and 90 proof;
It's in darned good shape considering it's just been sitting in storage somewhere for more than a half-century;
It's intriguing to ponder that when this bottle hit the shelves my father (then 24, and already a veteran of both the Great Depression and WWII North Africa and Europe) was barely old enough himself to buy it.
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I hope that several of us may someday enjoy this historical Stitzel-Weller bourbon together but -- for a little while, at least -- I'm just going to find a special place to set it where it can serve as an occasional time machine whenever it catches my eye.
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It was distilled in Spring 1940, bottled in Fall 1948 and BIB;
I didn't realize W.L. Weller Special Reserve was ever anything other than 7 years old and 90 proof;
It's in darned good shape considering it's just been sitting in storage somewhere for more than a half-century;
It's intriguing to ponder that when this bottle hit the shelves my father (then 24, and already a veteran of both the Great Depression and WWII North Africa and Europe) was barely old enough himself to buy it.
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I hope that several of us may someday enjoy this historical Stitzel-Weller bourbon together but -- for a little while, at least -- I'm just going to find a special place to set it where it can serve as an occasional time machine whenever it catches my eye.
http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/images/graemlins/toast.gif