By Richard Thomas
Score: B+
(Credit score: Richard Thomas)
When Shane Baker and Pat Heist got down to get into the enterprise of constructing whiskey (because the homeowners of Ferm Options consultantcy, they already had a foothold within the whiskey enterprise typically), they’d two needs. Each males are self-confessed whiskey nerds at a time when whiskey nerds normally have been obsessive about wheated bourbon. They each frankly admit its their favourite sort of bourbon, so that they wished to make it. They have been additionally dedicated to creating their core expressions bottled in bond whiskeys fairly early on. Taking these two elements in account, it’s truthful to say that Wilderness Path Bottled In Bond Wheated Bourbon is the whiskey they bought into the enterprise to make.
Wilderness Path’s wheated bourbon follows their “customary” mash method of 64% corn, 24% flavoring grain (on this occasion, wheat) and 12% malted barley. As one may anticipate from knowledgeable consultants on fermentation, their yeast pressure is proprietary. They’re a candy mash outfit. The distillery goes to 134 proof on the nonetheless and ages in further seasoned, #4 alligator char barrels for 4 to 5 years.
The Bourbon
My pour has the look of dulled copper. My tackle the nostril is that it smells like a toasted graham cracker smeared with apricot jam, in the event you sprinkled the highest of that cracker with brown sugar, cinnamon and bits of clove and served it on a musty oak plank. It’s predominately candy and fruity, however that musty wooden and the additional spice are on no account minor gamers within the scent.
The flavour runs in the same vein, albeit changing the brown sugar with honey within the sweetness, whereas including some caramel drizzle. It’s a well-balanced sipper, tasty and greater than just a bit refined, hitting nicely above its weight in age phrases. The end runs fairly heat, stays honeyed whereas additionally turning woodier, however doesn’t run alongside like that for lengthy. It fades off a second or two too quickly.
The Value
Formally, these are speculated to promote for $60. A sampling of on-line retailers locations that time within the middle of the vary of $55 to $65.
