Wilderness Trail Small Batch Rye Whiskey Bottled in Bond
- Grain to glass
- Bottled in bond
- Non-chill filtered
- Core range
- Proof
- 100
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- RyeKentucky Straight Rye Whiskey Bottled in Bond
- Street price
- $54.99
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“Kentucky-grown heritage rye in a sweet mash, bonded and unfiltered.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- sweet baking spice, oak, dark fruit, caraway rye bread and peppermint
- palate
- clove and white pepper opening into herbs, candied flowers, spearmint, Earl Grey tea and honey
- finish
- long and juicy; floral notes and spearmint sweetness stay, with a touch of orange and butterscotch against peppery oak
Mash bill
- Rye56%
- Corn33%
- Malted barley11%
56% rye, 33% corn, 11% malted barley. The rye is a heritage variety grown on a Kentucky farm near the distillery. Like Wilderness Trail's bourbons, it is a sweet mash, fermented with the distillery's own yeast strains without soured backset.
- Cask
- New air-dried oak, #4 char
- Best served
- neat or on the rocks
Awards
- Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2023
Why it's craft
Wilderness Trail makes this rye from heritage grain grown on a Kentucky farm near its Danville distillery and mashes it sweet, without the soured backset most Kentucky distilleries use. Its founders, Shane Baker and Pat Heist, came to whiskey from fermentation science and still run the distillery, in which Campari Group has held a 70% stake since 2022. Because it is bottled in bond, it comes from a single distilling season and spent at least four years in a federally bonded warehouse.
Wilderness Trail Distillery
Majority-owned · Est. 2012 · Tours