Sierra Norte: Yellow Corn Mexican Whiskey

SIERRA NORTE: Yellow Corn Mexican Whiskey (Single Barrel Pick)

48.3% abv, 750ml

A note from Drammers Club: Sierra Norte made huge waves when their bourbon-style yellow corn whiskey was named by Whiskey Advocate as one of the Top 20 whiskies in the world across all categories,. And their master distiller Douglas French has taken that several steps further. Applying what he learned cultivating seed banks in his decades of building the Scorpion Mezcal brand, when he turned his hand to whiskey, he worked to isolate individual corn varietals, planting and refining them over decades to produce separate whiskies distilled using only white corn, or yellow corn, green corn, black corn, purple corn, and more recently red, green and rainbow corn. They’re all made like a bourbon (but in Mexico, so you can’t call it bourbon, which by definition has to be made in the United States). The mashbill is 85% corn, 15% malted barley, distilled on the same small copper pot stills that he uses to make his Scorpion mezcal. When our club visited Oaxaca in 2021 for our annual Day of the Dead trip we picked 3 special single barrels. The first was a barrel of their award-winning yellow corn whiskey with huge green pepper/jalapeno notes, very different from his standard release. Next, he let us buy the very first (and very rare) barrel of rainbow corn whiskey that he has ever released. And most precious, he let us buy one of only two barrels of green corn whiskey that he barreled before abandoning the green corn project (it just wasn’t adapting to the Oaxacan environment, so he had to let it go — making our barrel incredibly rare, one of only 2 barrels he ever produced, and he’s not making any more of it).

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