Image: Wild Turkey Distilling Co.
Quick Profile
- Proof
- 101 Proof (50.5% ABV)
- ABV
- 50.5%
- Age
- NAS (~4–5 Years)
- Region
- Kentucky
Flavor Profile
What to Expect: This bottle leans toward Spice, Fruity, and Sweet & Dessert-Like notes. Specific descriptors include black pepper, green apple, honey, and mint.
Traditional "barely legal" rye; crisp spearmint, cracked black pepper, honey, apple orchard fruit, and lingering spice.
What Defines This Bottle
Age
This bottle carries no single stated age. Federal labeling rules only require an age statement when a whiskey is younger than 4 years, so a bottle without one may be genuinely young or simply old enough that stating it became optional.
Does No Age Statement Mean It's Young? →Production Details
Disclosed production notes from Wild Turkey Distilling Co. -- structured, sourced facts, not a tasting review.
- Cooperage
- Deep #4 char ("alligator char") across all aging barrels.
- Warehouse Notes
- Traditional timber-framed, tin-clad multi-story rickhouses along the Kentucky River
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