Wild Turkey 101 vs Wild Turkey 12 year

[corpse_welder]

Any discernible difference? Obviously the age, but is the 12 year comparable to say the quality of Kentucky Spirit? I am a huge fan of the Wild Turkey profile and I have access to a bottle but with shipping fees and whatnot it will not be cheap to get to me.

[flahute]

Any discernible difference? Obviously the age, but is the 12 year comparable to say the quality of Kentucky Spirit? I am a huge fan of the Wild Turkey profile and I have access to a bottle but with shipping fees and whatnot it will not be cheap to get to me.

The 12 year is completely different from standard 101 and WTKS. You really do taste the wood but in a positive way to my taste buds, which usually don't like the wood. It drinks like a much older bourbon than both of those two.

[OldDrinker1978]

Big lover of the WT Profile here too! Compared the 8 and 12 Year often but I didn't have a NAS 101 in quite some time. Compared to 8 Year Old the 12 Year is much more wood influenced! Less sweet. You get tons of deep, dark caramel though - tobacco, coffee and wood spices. It has a cognac-like roundness to it too. It's one of my fave pours. I get hints of some of the 12 Year flavours in the older Rare Breed Batch (108,2 Proof).

[corpse_welder]

That's good to hear the comparison to Rare Breed as it could be about $100 when it's all said and done to get the bottle of 12 year over to me, and I have a good amount of te old Rare Breed left. In my opinion, the plain old NAS 101 proof has been on an upswing lately in quality so I would recommend that. I have to quantify if ONE bottle of 12 year old would be worth replacing roughly SIX bottles of the 101 so I'm a bit on the fence