Wood's Tenderfoot Whiskey / 45%/ 0.7l

Wood's Tenderfoot Whiskey is a proposal from the mountainous Colorado, specifically from Wood's High Mountain Distillery.

Founded by brothers PT and Lee Wood in 2011, it first distilled a year later, and Tenderfoot Whiskey debuted in June 2013. Its formula lists 77% malted barley (some brewer’s chocolate malt, some cherry-wood-cured malt), 13% malted rye, and 10% malted wheat. Fermentation lasts for 9 days, and the distillate is aged in small 25- and 30-gallon barrels for about a year. The Wood brothers call their creation a single malt, but technically it’s a malt whiskey (distilled from a mash of at least 51% malted barley).

Nose: a slice of rye bread, roasted peanuts, raisins, milk chocolate, a pinch of pepper and a faint trace of leather.

Taste: slightly spicy, pepper, cinnamon, roasted nuts, chocolate-covered cherries and a delicate bitterness of oak.

Finish: medium long, spicy, with notes of pepper, ginger and oak.