I’ll be frank: This is one of those whiskeys where we saw the bottle and knew we had to have it, with the Drinkhacker staff swapping photos of the thing, wondering what to make of it. It’s shaped like a cathedral, with a gargoyle on top of the stopper and another etched into the glass below the WWS seal. A metal panel on the reverse (actually I don’t even know which side is supposed to be the front) tells you everything you need to know about the product, which doesn’t really even have a name: It’s just “a 12-year-old Indiana Rye whiskey finished in ex-Awamori Casks.” It’s 95/5 MGP rye, non-chill-filtered, no color added. 5000 bottles produced in this batch, #6 — though it’s hard to imagine there are 30,000 bottles of this out there.

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