Wathen's Single Barrel Kentucky Bourbon

Kentucky, USA- Each barrel is carefully tended to ensure bottling at the peak of maturity. Bold, luscious, and flat-out delicious whiskey with abundant caramel, vanilla, honey, flower petal, leather, dark chocolate, berry fruit, apple, pepper, and allspice on the nose and palate.

Charles Medley is no stranger to the world of Bourbon. A distiller himself until the 1990s, Charles is the 7th generation of Wathens and Medleys to be in the bourbon biz. Today, the Medley company- consisting of Charles and his son, Sam (the 8th generation)- are non-distilling producers who bottle various whiskeys under the names Medley, Wathen’s, or some derivation thereof. All their whiskey is distilled for them on contract to a mash bill of 77% corn, 10% rye, and 13% malted barley. With a barley content higher than the rye, I generally will expect a slightly grain-forward profile on the palate. This is certainly placed in a lower rye tranche of bourbons.