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This Bottle of Red Hook Rye is One of the Rarest, Most Expensive Willetts in the World

Every whiskey collector has a unicorn bottle they’re hunting. Whether you take part in liquor store lotteries, pop into every county-line shop you pass on the side of the road, or scour Facebook groups watching for your favorites, there’s a bottle every bourbon lover would jump at the chance to buy.

For lovers of Willett Family Estate releases, that bottle is likely to be LeNell’s Red Hook Rye. After a meeting with Willett Master Distiller Drew Kulsveen, Tonya LeNell Smothers visited Kentucky in 2007 and 2008 to pick a few