Augusta Distillery Single Barrel Cask Strength Wheated Unfiltered Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Augusta Distillery had never made a wheated bourbon until March 2026, when it launched this alongside its Small Batch as the first expansion of its core range beyond the Old Route 8 and Buckner's single barrels. The idea is simple: swap the rye in the mash bill for wheat, which softens the spice and rounds out the profile — the same principle behind Maker's Mark, Weller, and Pappy Van Winkle. What Augusta adds is its house discipline: this is a true single barrel of Kentucky straight bourbon, aged an average of seven years, bottled unfiltered at full cask strength, never proofed down, so every barrel lands at its own proof and every bottle carries the barrel number. Master distiller Alex Castle — formerly of Wild Turkey and Old Dominick — oversees the operation from a restored 1883 factory building on the banks of the Ohio River in Augusta, Kentucky, where two 35-foot Vendome copper stills now handle the distillery's own production. Expect the wheated signature amplified by the proof: soft caramel, vanilla, honey, and baked bread on the nose, opening into a rounder, creamier palate of butterscotch, cherry, brown sugar, and gentle baking spice, finishing warm and long with toasted oak. It's the distillery's answer to a bourbon that drinks approachable despite cask strength — and at around $80, a far more accessible entry into single barrel wheated bourbon than the allocated names it's built to compete with.

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