These are blended together with straight bourbon whiskey from mash bills of 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% malted barley as well as 78% corn, 10% rye, 12% malted barley. Wild Turkey is no stranger to ...
Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon - Best Under $30: Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon - Best Mid-Range: Henry McKenna Single Barrel Bourbon - Best for Old Fashioneds: Old Forester 100 Bourbon - Best ...
Wild Turkey 101 is a cult classic among bourbon drinkers. During bourbon’s lean years, from the 1970s through the ’90s, master distiller Jimmy Russell insisted that Wild Turkey 101 be made in ...
is the other Wild Turkey master distiller). He told me he really wanted to tie it back to his father and the bourbon’s namesake, who was very close to Russell back in the day through good times ...
which Jimmy largely eschews in favor of Wild Turkey classics like 101 and Rare Breed. Eddie tells a story that illustrates the differences in their approaches to bourbon: “When I first started ...