Tasting notes

nose

ripe pear and stone fruit with butterscotch and a pinch of cinnamon

palate

light and oily, with walnut, cinnamon and leather over butterscotch and a wisp of smoke

finish

medium length; leather carries through and fades to a hint of oak

Mash bill

Corn, wheat and malted barley, in proportions Wigle has not published. The grain is grown in the region and milled at the distillery in Pittsburgh's Strip District before it is fermented. Wheat, not rye, is the second grain.

Awards

• Bronze — American Craft Spirits Association Awards 2025

Why it's craft

This is the four-year straight bourbon in Wigle's Reserve line, made from grain to bottle in Pittsburgh rather than bought from another distillery. Wigle mills regional grain, ferments it and runs it through a copper pot still in the Strip District, where it opened as the first distillery in the city since Prohibition. The distillery is named for Philip Wigle, a western Pennsylvania distiller caught up in the Whiskey Rebellion, and has been owned since 2022 by Pittsburgh Spirits, a family-owned company.