Fierce & Kind Straight Bourbon Whiskey MARQUE Cave Mont Blanc is a

Cave Mont Blanc is a cooperative of around 70 mountain growers in the Valle d'Aosta

This is the beer equivalent of a perfectly pressed white shirt—nothing flashy

but without the fame or the swagger

farming these hills with the same seriousness as their better-known neighbors and a fraction of the attention

a mirror of his vineyard holdings

Fierce & Kind Straight Bourbon Whiskey MARQUE Cave Mont Blanc is aThis is the everyday bottle in the Fierce & Kind range, and it's built to be poured freely rather than hoarded. The mash leans on corn with a serious proportion of rye behind it enough to give the whiskey a peppery spine instead of pure sweetness and it's matured in heavily charred barrels before bottling at 90 proof. Expect caramel, vanilla, baked apple and toasted oak up front, then that rye pepper on the back end, all at a strength that stays