Cherry Wood Smoked Barley Woodford Reserve

Rather than using the natural malted barley used in woodford reserve bourbon master distiller chris morris instead selected malt that had been smoked with cherry wood during the kilning process.

Cherry wood smoked barley woodford reserve.

In recent years woodford reserve has released a malt whiskey that s quite delicious and very approachable for bourbon drinkers with a mashbill of 51 malted barley 47 corn and 2 rye. Today that pioneering spirit is embodied in the woodford reserve distillery s master s collection series and its latest release cherry wood smoked barley. In this expression chris morris used malt that been smoked in cherry wood. Woodford reserve master s collection cherry wood smoked barley october 25 2017 for its 2017 limited edition master s collection bourbon the 12th in the series woodford reserve has gone a little bit off the script.

Released periodically these whiskeys are limited in quantity but extraordinary in quality. Not only that while most american bourbons contain around 10 15 malted barley this one contains an impressive 30. The malted barley used in the mash for this particular expression was dried using the smoke from burning cherry wood.