![]() The nose has a crisp character, in keeping with the bad boy reputation this bourbon often carries. In the glass, the bourbon has the benchmark mid-amber coloring. What is surprising is that there aren’t many, many more of them. When you add it all up, it’s not surprising that Wild Turkey 101 has always had its devotees, from the fictitious Boyd Crowder to the very real Hunter S. ![]() The whiskey is just one step behind the age and proof of your typical premium cask strength bourbon, and has been since the mid-20th Century, long before anyone started taking small batch or single barrel. Whereas most mass market products draw on stock aged between four and six years, Wild Turkey 101 averages as an eight year old. One of the small changes recently made at the Austin-Nichols Distillery so as to keep on top of supply was to raise the proof of the new make going into the barrel, but for decades before that the whiskey would come out of the barrels just a little stronger than its bottling proof, requiring minimal cutting.Īnother tweak places it beyond the norm of the mass market range, one that isn’t on the label. Whereas most mass market products are bottled at 80 proof, and a few are a notch stronger at 90 proof, the classic Wild Turkey expression is 101 proof (50.5% abv). The most obvious reason is right there on the current version of label. In the world of mass market bourbons, Wild Turkey has stood apart for at least modern memory, if not before.
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