Twelve years is a long nap for a wheated bourbon, and Weller 12 Year wears every one of them well. Buffalo Trace Distillery swaps rye for wheat in the mash, and that grain softness plus a decade-plus of Kentucky oak lands as lanolin, almond, and creamed corn on the nose, a layered and moderately sweet mid-palate, and a long, oaky, intensely smooth finish at 90 proof. This 700ml bottling is the export-market format of an allocation staple whose wheated recipe also raises some of the most hunted bottles in bourbon. Sip it neat after dinner this is a bottle for slow evenings, not cocktails.