<body><div>When you think of Tennessee whiskey, the first name that comes to mind is most likely Jack Daniel’s. There’s a good reason for that. The distillery’s Old No. 7 is one of the best-selling and most popular whiskeys in the world. But there are other distilleries in the Volunteer State making fantastic bottles, ranging from relatively big names like George Dickel to various craft operations. One of the best in the latter category is Chattanooga Whiskey.Chattanooga Whiskey was founded in 2011, when it became the first distillery to get a license to make whiskey in its namesake city in about a century. The team started out by sourcing whiskey from MGP in Indiana, as so many do. But by 2015, they were making their own whiskey at the newly built Experimental Distillery, releasing an un-aged expression to start. A few years later, its Riverfront Distillery opened and production scaled up.In recent years Chattanooga Whiskey has been putting out a series of excellent high-malt and bottled-in-bond bourbons, along with some experimental releases, that have made a big impact on the American whiskey scene.To be clear, the distillery makes bourbon—not Tennessee whiskey. While both are essentially the same, Tennessee whiskey goes through an extra step called the Lincoln County process, in which the spirit is filtered through charcoal before bottling, something that Jack Daniel’s calls mellowing. Chattanooga Whiskey, however, doesn't do this.Want the latest whiskey news, deals, and reviews? Sign up for the Whiskey Wednesday newsletter.Its core range consists of 91- and 111-proof versions of high-malt bourbon, which means the mash bill contains a high percentage of malted grains. In this case, the recipe consists of corn (at least 51 percent as is required by law), malted rye, and two types of malted barley—caramel and honey, which refer to how much the grains are roasted.Over the past few months, Chattanooga Whiskey has released a trio of new whiskeys. The most recent is the latest entry in the distillery’s Bottled in Bond Vintage Series. Bottled in bond whiskeys are least four years old, bottled at 100 proof, and the product of one distillery in one distillation season. In this case, it was distilled in the fall of 2020 at the Riverfront Distillery using a new five-grain mash bill called SB101, which includes two types of caramel roasted barley. It's a very interesting bourbon unlike others I've tried. The official tasting notes describe oatmeal raisin cookie, root beer, pecan pie, chocolate malt, and sweet hay on the palate.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4WPw55_0wM5BjMN00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4WPw55_0wM5BjMN00" width="800" height="800" ><figcaption>Russian River Pinot Cask Finished is a high-malt expression. Russian River Pinot Cask Finished is a high-malt expression.</figcaption></figure>Another new release is the fifth in the Barrel Finishing Series called Russian River Pinot Cask Finished. This is the distillery’s high-malt bourbon that was aged for more than four years, then finished for six months in pinot noir barrels sourced from a winery in California’s Russian River Valley. Look for notes of fresh berries, cherry pie, and brown sugar on the palate.Lastly, at the end of the summer, the distillery released Experimental Single Batch Series: Batch 039: Harvest Bourbon. It's made from a seven-grain mash bill that includes unusual grains like raw and malted rice, malted oats, and malted triticale, a hybrid wheat-rye grain. This whiskey was aged for more than five years in just six barrels with different char and toast levels, but it still qualifies as bourbon.The new Chattanooga Whiskey expressions are available now in select states and online. To get your hands on a bottle of the Harvest Bourbon, you’ll have to travel to the Experimental Distillery in Chattanooga.</div></body>

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When you think of Tennessee whiskey, the first name that comes to mind is most likely Jack Daniel’s. There’s a good reason for that. The distillery’s Old No. 7 is one of the best-selling and most popular whiskeys in the world. But there are other distilleries in the Volunteer State making fantastic bottles, ranging from relatively big names like George Dickel to various craft operations. One of the best in the latter category is Chattanooga Whiskey.