The Wilderness Trail Wheated Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskeys are offered as a Small Batch – Bottled in Bond. The Small Batch selection offers nuances only premium cooper select barrels can create using 18-month-old air-dried staves. After all, the barrels impart a large part of the flavor.
In addition, the Bottled in Bond gives you assurance the Bourbon was properly distilled, aged between 5-6 years and bottled by us under the supervision of the U.S. Government at 100 proof.
What is the mashbill?
The Bottled in Bond release mash bill is 64 percent corn, 24 percent wheat and 12 percent malted barley using proprietary yeast strains. This is one of the highest ratios of wheat used in a Bourbon made in Kentucky. The Whiskey entered the cooper select, #4 char barrel at 110 proof after coming off the still around 137 proof. All whiskeys are aged and matured on our 168-acre campus inside any one of the rickhouses. There are more than 250,000 barrels aging onsite.
Small Batch
An overused term in the industry that Wilderness Trail takes very seriously - so they decided decided to give it our own definition. So, what is a SMALL BATCH? At Wilderness Trail, it's a max of just 20 barrels per batch.
Bottled-in-Bond
All core products adhere to the rigorous criteria to be considered "BOTTLED-IN-BOND" all are distilled in a single distilling season.
Sweet Mash
Among the first of Kentucky's distillers to embrace the SWEET MASH process as their sole mashing technique.
