Weller Reserve With Age Statement

[cowdery]

It's like any other information, assuming it's factual and reliable. The more information you have, the easier it is to make a judgment. What I think the companie forget is that if I know I tend to like, for example, bourbon that is more than 6 years old, I will look for age statements that give me that information, and probably ignore all NAS bottles unless I'm already familiar with them.

In fact, I think the companies know this. They've just decided, for cost reasons, to set the bar for age statements a little higher, above 8 years, for example. But if American whiskey makers have decided they can't risk age statements at any level, then I think they're making a mistake. In the scotch segment we're seeing more age statements, not fewer.

[BourbonJoe]

You have to figure WSR isn't going to get better because it went NAS.

Quite the opposite.

Joe :usflag:

[p_elliott]

This is just thinking off the top of my head here. I normally like AS bourbon but one advantage I could see to NAS is it gives them more barrels to chose from to get the best flavor profile. If your locked in at 7 yrs and this barrel has peaked at 6 what do you do? Just a thought as I was reading along.

[Restaurant man]

This is just thinking off the top of my head here. I normally like AS bourbon but one advantage I could see to NAS is it gives them more barrels to chose from to get the best flavor profile. If your locked in at 7 yrs and this barrel has peaked at 6 what do you do? Just a thought as I was reading along.

This is why Four Roses doesn't use age statements. But i doubt it is why weller is dropping them.

[mosugoji64]

This is just thinking off the top of my head here. I normally like AS bourbon but one advantage I could see to NAS is it gives them more barrels to chose from to get the best flavor profile. If your locked in at 7 yrs and this barrel has peaked at 6 what do you do? Just a thought as I was reading along.

That would be ideal, but has the history of lost age statements proven that distilleries follow that plan? I don't have a lot of experience with comparing, but reading about others' experiences seems to indicate a drop in quality with the loss of age statements.

[JayMonster]

This is just thinking off the top of my head here. I normally like AS bourbon but one advantage I could see to NAS is it gives them more barrels to chose from to get the best flavor profile. If your locked in at 7 yrs and this barrel has peaked at 6 what do you do? Just a thought as I was reading along.

This is a valid argument, and one that (initially at least) seemed to held true for OWA, as I have seen many comments when it first went NAS that it was as good if not better than the last year or so of the age stated bottles.

The question of course is whether or not that remains the case in the long term, which if history is a good indicator, does not seem to be the case.

[p_elliott]

This is a valid argument, and one that (initially at least) seemed to held true for OWA, as I have seen many comments when it first went NAS that it was as good if not better than the last year or so of the age stated bottles.

The question of course is whether or not that remains the case in the long term, which if history is a good indicator, does not seem to be the case.

I think the reasoning being there is when it was AS 7 year old the youngest whiskey in the bottle could only be 7 yrs old. Now that it goes NAS they can slip in some younger cherry barrels but it's still basically the same stuff. But as time goes by the barrels and the whiskey get younger and younger. That is the distilleries being cheap .

[p_elliott]

This is a valid argument, and one that (initially at least) seemed to held true for OWA, as I have seen many comments when it first went NAS that it was as good if not better than the last year or so of the age stated bottles.

The question of course is whether or not that remains the case in the long term, which if history is a good indicator, does not seem to be the case.

I'm also not convinced that when OWA went NAS it ever dropped below 7 yrs as it came from the same dump as the WSR that was 7 yr AS. I think it may have now that WSR has gone NAS.