I'm just interested in purchasing the cool, collectible bottle. Not the juice in it.

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Thanks! The side of the blade and bow bottle states it contains some of the last SW produced. Jon at total wine lewisville couldn't believe they even had one when I bought it.

It does carry the SW name on it as well.


Found eagle rare for $25 in Arlington specs limit 1and it's great. Im reading weller 7 will likely be back around in march?

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Weller 7 Year is no more. The Weller 7 Year was re-branded as Weller Special Reserve a few years ago, and the 7 year age statement was removed. You can find Weller Special Reserve pretty much anywhere for $20 or less, and at that price it's a pretty decent bottle.

A few other pieces of unsolicited advice:

1. Don't believe what your salesman tells you to be excited about. They have marching orders on what to sell up to their customers. I've had salespeople at the Total Wine in Lewisville try to convince me that Noah's Mill, Rowans Creek, and Willet Pot still were super rare bottles that they were lucky to have in stock. Reality is you can find any of those at any decent store, any time you want, at regular old retail price. They're also all made by the same company, which tells me that Total Wine was trying to move that particular company's product on that particular day.

Lewisiville Total Wine did get me once on a "single grain" Irish whiskey though. Salesman talked it up like it was an absolute gem of an Irish whiskey, on par with many much more expensive port-finished scotches. Turned out the single grain was corn, and the whiskey just tasted like young, watery bourbon. Lesson being: don't forget that your salespeople are...well...salespeople. Especially at big-box liquor stores.

2. You have to realize that you're getting interested in bourbon at kind of a tough time for bourbon drinkers. Many top-end bourbons are insanely difficult to find, and priced to match. Many mid-level products are disappearing from store shelves as distilleries hold more barrels back to make more top-end product a few years from now. Many of the good mid-range products are having their age statements pulled, as distillers use younger and younger whiskies to make their products, in order to increase volume of sellable bourbon. Like Weller 7 Year becoming Weller Special Reserve and Elijah Craig 12 Year becoming Elijah Craig Small Batch just in the last couple months. So reading reviews from 4 or 5 years ago may not be representative of current products.

Lastly, and most importantly:

3. Enjoy the hunt, but try not to get too caught up the the hype over super rare, bourbons. The beauty of Bourbon is that it's relatively cheap and easy to mass produce, and there are lots of fantastic bourbons on your store shelf every day for under $50 a bottle. Elijah Craig, Bookers, Makers Cask Strength, Noah's Mill, Larceny, Woodford, Knob Creek, Four Roses Small Batch and Single Barrel, Etc. Etc. Are all great bourbons, at affordable prices, and will bring you plenty of enjoyment. Don't convince yourself that the Pappy's and Staggs of the world are the be-all end-all of bourbon. Because when push comes to shove, they really aren't that much better than many of their readily available counterparts that cost a tenth as much.

Happy sipping.