- Proof
- 92
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- BourbonStraight Bourbon Whiskey
- MSRP
- $58.00
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“An heirloom red corn, grown for Wigle by farms outside Pittsburgh, carries this bourbon.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- dark cocoa, roasted nuts, cigar tobacco and spearmint over vanilla and butterscotch
- palate
- savory and spicy, with butter candy dusted in baking spice, brown sugar, black pepper and fresh bread
- finish
- medium; black pepper and baked bread hang on, easing into leather
Mash bill
- Wapsie Valley corn65%
- Malted barley17.5%
- Wheat17.5%
65% Wapsie Valley corn, 17.5% malted barley, 17.5% wheat. Wapsie Valley is an open-pollinated heirloom corn with tall stalks and multi-toned ruby ears, and it carries more protein than the yellow corn most bourbon is made from. Local family farms near Pittsburgh brought the variety back for Wigle, starting in 2014 when Nigel Tudor of Weatherbury Farms offered to grow it.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
Awards
- Silver — American Craft Spirits Association Awards 2025
Why it's craft
Wigle buys this heirloom corn from local family farms that took on an open-pollinated heirloom that is hard to grow. The distillery mills, ferments and pot-distills every grain itself in Pittsburgh's Strip District, where it opened in 2012 as the first distillery in the city since Prohibition. Wigle has been owned since 2022 by Pittsburgh Spirits, a family-owned sister company of Highlands Ventures.
Wigle Whiskey
Corporate-owned · Est. 2011 · Tours