Wilderness Trail Bourbon Whiskey - Del Mesa & Chips Liquor Private Selection

This is a five-year Wilderness Trail single barrel picked by Del Mesa Liquor and Chips Liquor — the 24%-rye sweet-mash bourbon from rickhouse A, rick N7C2, bottled for San Diego. Pat Heist and Shane Baker, the fermentation scientists behind Ferm Solutions, founded Wilderness Trail in Danville in 2013 and made sweet mash — a fresh fermentation every time, no sour-mash backset — the house rule; Campari bought a majority stake in 2022, and the private-barrel program is one of the most respected in Kentucky craft. The Del Mesa and Chips barrel is the 64% corn, 24% rye, 12% malted barley bourbon, sweet-mashed, barreled at 110 proof, aged five years in rickhouse A at position N7C2, and bottled from that one barrel; check your bottle for the proof. Expect the Wilderness Trail signature with an extra year: bright fruit — orange, cherry, peach — over caramel, baking spice, and pipe tobacco, a soft, clean texture, and a warm, spiced finish. Honest note: Del Mesa and Chips pick together and taste blind, and this barrel exists nowhere else — a San Diego bottling of the most scientifically serious craft bourbon in Kentucky. Neat, a drop of water. Wilderness Trail, A-N7C2, ours.

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