Tasting notes

nose

red berries and creamy white chocolate with a flinty mineral note and a lift of stone fruit

palate

baked citrus peel and blackberry jam, then cinnamon apple, raisin, chewy toffee, cherry and lemon tart

finish

long; warm fruit pie and oak spice, trailing off on zesty citrus candy

Mash bill

Corn, malted barley and either wheat or rye; Wyoming Whiskey has not published which of its two bourbon recipes this bottle uses. The house wheated recipe is 68% corn, 20% winter wheat and 12% malted barley, and its rye recipe is 68% corn, 20% winter rye and 12% malted barley. The grain is non-GMO and grown in Wyoming by the Rageth family in Byron, who have worked with the distillery since it began to choose varieties for their starch and sugar.

Why it's craft

Wyoming Whiskey, the first legal distillery in the state, makes every drop it sells in Kirby from Wyoming-grown grain. At ten years Moran is among its oldest releases, aged in rack houses where temperatures swing from summer heat to deep winter cold. Proceeds support the Grand Teton National Park Foundation, and the founding Mead family's history is tied to the creation of the park.