Tasting notes

nose

honey-glazed crullers with cinnamon sugar, baked orange, almond and apricot, over rose petal and toasted oak

palate

almond and cherry liqueur, honey, orange cake and whipped vanilla, then bergamot tea and allspice over leather

finish

medium; cinnamon spice, espresso and milk chocolate linger with a trace of leather, drying out on a cool menthol note

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 makes its whiskey entirely in Wyoming: grain from farms in Byron, water from the Madison limestone aquifer, and distilling and aging in Kirby, where it opened the first legal distillery in the state. This fifth National Parks edition is made with the Grand Teton National Park Foundation, and part of every sale goes to its preservation work. The founding Mead family has a long history in the Teton country and in the creation of the park.