Buffalo Trace distilled this whiskey from its wheated recipe in the fall of 1998 and stored the barrels on the fifth floor of Warehouses N and O. It was bottled uncut and unfiltered at 134.8 proof: no water in, nothing filtered out.

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What proof is the 2009 William Larue Weller?

The 2009 William Larue Weller is bottled at 134.8 proof, or 67.4% alcohol by volume. Buffalo Trace bottles this Antique Collection wheated bourbon uncut and unfiltered, so the figure is the strength the 2009 batch measured at bottling. Within the 2009 collection it came second, under the 141.4-proof George T. Stagg and over the 129-proof Thomas H. Handy rye.

Is the 2009 William Larue Weller the highest proof release?

No. At 134.8 proof the 2009 was the strongest William Larue Weller Buffalo Trace had bottled across the label's first five barrel-proof years, ahead of 2005 at 121.9, 2006 at 129.9, 2007 at 117.9 and 2008 at 125.3. Later releases went higher: the 2013 reached 136.2 proof and the 2014 reached 140.2.

When was the 2009 William Larue Weller distilled?

Buffalo Trace distilled the 2009 William Larue Weller in the fall of 1998 and aged it on the fifth floor of Warehouses N and O. The distillery did not publish an age at bottling for this release; the two dates it did publish, fall 1998 and fall 2009, put the whiskey at eleven years.