Wyoming Whiskey - Small Batch Bourbon
Price: $38.91
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| Producer | Wyoming Whiskey |
| Country | United States |
| Region | Wyoming |
| Style | Bourbon |
| Sku | 02347 |
Wyoming Whiskey Description
WYOMING. FAMILY. WHISKEY. IN THAT ORDER. We’re not owned by some beverage giant or traded on the Big Board. We are independent, family-owned whiskey makers with a world-class distillery in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. Our company and products are a collaboration between our partners and 97,818 square miles of Wyoming. The state defines us; it’s in our blood and in our whiskey.
ONLY WYOMING INGREDIENTS The Big Horn Basin has everything we need to make great bourbon, and it is important to us to source our ingredients locally. The consistency and uniqueness of these whiskey elements make for a better bourbon that stands apart. It’s the Whiskey of the West.
LOCAL CORN, WHEAT, BARLEY, RYE AND NO GMOS. WE KNOW WHO GROWS. Brent Rageth from Rageth Farm in Byron, Wyoming has worked with Wyoming Whiskey from the start to select strains of non-GMO corn, wheat, barley, and winter rye for specific starch and sugar yields, the building blocks of bourbon making. We use a corn strain that matures in 92 days, and is hand-selected by Brent. Rageth Farms also delivers summer and winter wheat that is grown exclusively for Wyoming Whiskey, and a winter rye that will be the key ingredient for a couple of rye products that are on the near horizon.
REAL HOT AND REAL COLD. Our whiskey is aged for a minimum of 5 years in the most unique maturation environment in the bourbon world. Kirby is cold in the winter. Wyoming cold. And it’s hot in the summer. Real hot. That’s tough on people, but good for the whiskey.
The Big Horn Basin heats up in the summer, pushing the whiskey in the barrels through the charred oak and producing most of the flavors of the soon-to-be bourbon. The intensity of the heat and drastic daily temperature swings cause the barrels to dramatically breathe in-and-out, taking the best of what the oak and 5 summers have to offer.
FIVE YEARS IN THE RICKHOUSE DOING THE TIME. We age our bourbon for a minimum of 5 years in one of our 3 rick houses.
There are some newfangled ways of speeding up the maturation process that are being tested by both craft and behemoth distilleries.
Consider us Old School, but we don’t do that. Believing that nothing can replicate the magic that comes from the simple combination of time, temperature, and charred oak barrels, and that the Wyoming environment is one of the things that makes our bourbon singular. You can cheat color and some taste, but for the super smooth finish – only time will due.
EVERY DROP. WE SELL, WE MAKE. We make bourbon in small batches at our distillery in Kirby, Wyoming. From day one, every drop of Wyoming Whiskey was made in Kirby and aged in one of our three rick houses. That’s not true of every whiskey you run into. We don’t pass judgment, but it means a lot to us and we hope it means something to you.
SMALL BATCH BOURBON WHISKEY A traditional bourbon, from an untraditional place. Our original, flagship, and defining product, the award-winning Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey.
TASTING NOTES
COLOR: dark amber.
NOSE: floral, with a hint of vanilla bean and caramel pudding.
PALATE: floral with brown baking spices and browned butter, vanilla crème, caramel, and a hint of cinnamon.
MOUTHFEEL: light and smooth with vanilla bean and cinnamon spice filling the mouth cavity, hint of mint.
FINISH: medium length finish with toffee. Spice and vanilla fade.
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