The 'True American' designation emphasizes domestic sourcing and production—a deliberate claim in a category dominated by Caribbean tradition
If Les Saint-Georges is the elegant aristocrat of Nuits
Whole-cluster fermentation in large conical vats for 2-3 weeks
re-established in 1965 by Jack and Jamie Davies
and Monforte at 220m altitude
Great Jones Distillery, Wheated Bourbon, NV SO042225 Pierre Paillard The 'True American' designation emphasizesManhattan's first legal whiskey distillery since Prohibition makes this on Great Jones Street in NoHo, and it is the softest thing in their lineup. Wheat in the mash bill is what does it it rounds a bourbon out and pulls back the pepper you get from a rye heavy recipe. The grain is all New York, corn, wheat, barley and rye grown in the Black Dirt country of the Warwick Valley, mashed with Catskill Mountain water, and the whiskey is aged four years in