tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post1477179207119885070..comments2024-03-17T14:10:05.912-05:00Comments on The Chuck Cowdery Blog: Weller Antique Is Not Being Discontinued.Chuck Cowderyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12191121480961526039noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-1681424305104788782013-11-08T15:24:49.902-06:002013-11-08T15:24:49.902-06:00Sounds right.Sounds right.Chuck Cowderyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191121480961526039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-60476592900411335432013-11-08T08:28:47.220-06:002013-11-08T08:28:47.220-06:00Hey Chuck,
I recently found some Weller 12 (1.75 ...Hey Chuck,<br /><br />I recently found some Weller 12 (1.75 liter) that is laser dated 2006. For starters, the bottle shape is slightly different than the current. This one is taller, more slender and contains the embossed cross wheat. Besides that, the bourbon within the 2006 is AT LEAST 2 shades darker than that current juice. I have already opened this bottle up and wow, it is like drinking a different bourbon, from the nose being richer to the finish having distinct characteristics that just smack you in the face. I just wonder if this is Bernheim distillate or possibly a combination of older S-W? It simply does not taste like BT juice.<br /><br />BrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-56192207491261039162012-04-11T08:07:30.468-05:002012-04-11T08:07:30.468-05:00I'll judge by achievement and American whiskey...I'll judge by achievement and American whiskey and its choices are better than ever. Business plans can be viewed as conspiracies and screwing the public but the market is the truth. Dylan started playing electric and Paul is not dead yet.T Compnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-38214314670568569642012-04-10T07:52:33.763-05:002012-04-10T07:52:33.763-05:00It seems to me that Buffalo Trace (Sazerac) has a ...It seems to me that Buffalo Trace (Sazerac) has a unique marketing strategy with many of its whiskies. When you look at the market in the US and closely examine the top selling "rare" and "limited production" bottles, I would assert that most of them are coming out of buffalo Trace. (Van Winkle, antique collection, experimental collection)If that's not marketing I don't what is.<br /><br />This hullaballew about Weller could simply be more marketing hype. Otherwise, as Chuck offered, I feel like there would have been a retraction, or an apology and correction and not just alot of double talk. <br /><br />Just last year there was a similar comment made and taken out of context about Laphroaig 10 year old stock being nearly depleted and future bottles therefore were going to be expensive and/or very hard to come by. Simon Brooking of Laphroaig quickly jumped on that, made the correction, sited where the mistake was made and how the comment had been taken out of context, advised that stocks of whisky were in fine supply and that peat heads will find their whisky on shelves in long supply.<br /><br />My impression of Buffalo Trace is that they do not subscribe to many of the same philosophies that other producers do. They market their hooch in different ways, and quite successfully at that. But what really makes it hard to simply drop BT products due to disagreeable marketing tactics is the fact that they make some damn good whiskey.<br /><br />Thus my love/hate relationship with the Trace continues.Justin Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-51174031994575007372012-04-09T14:58:56.377-05:002012-04-09T14:58:56.377-05:00Well, I'm glad to hear that the rumor isn'...Well, I'm glad to hear that the rumor isn't true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-35952333496843463042012-04-09T13:06:21.257-05:002012-04-09T13:06:21.257-05:00Neither was a retraction. More like a clarificatio...Neither was a retraction. More like a clarification, or correction of a misunderstanding. As for Van Winkle, I'm staying out of that minefield.Chuck Cowderyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191121480961526039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-840930092789285091.post-50178535318446931482012-04-09T12:54:25.475-05:002012-04-09T12:54:25.475-05:00Chuck,
This is the 2nd time we've recently...Chuck,<br /><br /> This is the 2nd time we've recently had a "stopping production - not stopping production" statement retraction.<br /><br />In the 1st case, WT101, the retraction was that it was a misunderstanding and what was said was that 2012 production would be VERY reduced (probably none would reach the store the WT folks were at) and that it would begin picking up in 2013 and be back to normal in 2014.<br /><br />Did Harlan's denial attempt to explain why he was quoted as he was (and did he deny any of the other statements about VW provenance that were attributed to him)?<br /><br />Tom HeltAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com