- Proof
- 92
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- RyeStraight Rye Whiskey Finished in Port Casks
- MSRP
- $65.00
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“Monongahela-style rye that spends a year and a half in port barrels and comes out violet.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- rich and sweet with dried figs, dates and stewed fruit, and herbal rye underneath
- palate
- rye grass and fresh bread come forward, with black cherry, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg cake and vanilla, drying slightly on the tongue
- finish
- long; a drop of honey and dark fruit, with rye spice outlasting both
Mash bill
- Rye68%
- Wheat17%
- Two-row malted barley15%
68% rye, 17% wheat, 15% two-row malted barley. This is Wigle's Monongahela-style rye recipe, built on regionally grown rye with wheat and malted barley, all milled, mashed and fermented at the Pittsburgh distillery.
- Cask
- 25-gallon new charred American oak; ex-port wine barrels
- Finish
- Tawny and ruby port barrels, 18 months
- Best served
- neat or on the rocks
Awards
- Gold — American Craft Spirits Association Awards 2020
Why it's craft
Wigle revives Monongahela rye, the spicy, earthy rye that was the benchmark of American whiskey when Western Pennsylvania led the country's distilling in the 1700s and 1800s. Here it ages in small barrels first, then takes a year and a half in port barrels. Every grain is milled, fermented and pot-distilled in Pittsburgh's Strip District, where Wigle opened in 2012 as the city's first distillery since Prohibition. Pittsburgh Spirits, a family-owned company, bought the distillery in 2022.
Wigle Whiskey
Corporate-owned · Est. 2011 · Tours