High Wire Jimmy Red Sweet Mash Finished In Sherry Cask Straight Bourbon Whiskey 93 Proof

# High Wire Distilling & Jimmy Red Bourbon

## About High Wire Distilling Company

Located in historic **Charleston, South Carolina**, High Wire Distilling Company approaches whiskey a little differently. Founded by husband-and-wife team **Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall**, High Wire combines traditional distilling with a decidedly **culinary, grain-first philosophy**.

Scott, a Culinary Institute of America-trained baker and founder of Immaculate Baking Company, brought his understanding of grains, ingredients and flavor development into distilling.

Rather than treating corn simply as a source of fermentable sugar, High Wire asks a more interesting question:

**What can the grain itself contribute to the finished whiskey?**

That philosophy led High Wire to **Jimmy Red**, a once nearly extinct South Carolina heirloom corn historically associated with local moonshiners.

Deep burgundy in color and unusually high in oils, Jimmy Red produces a spirit quite unlike whiskey made from conventional commodity corn. High Wire helped establish a sustainable supply of the grain and made it the centerpiece of its bourbon program.

Today, the Jimmy Red range explores this remarkable grain through different proofs, maturation techniques, finishes — and, in one particularly unusual case, **smoke**.

## 🥃 Jimmy Red Sweet Mash Sherry Cask Finish Straight Bourbon — 93 Proof

### South Carolina Heirloom Corn Meets the Old World

Here High Wire takes Jimmy Red in another direction, finishing its sweet-mash bourbon in **sherry casks**.

The sherry influence brings **dried fruit, nuttiness, sweetness and additional richness**, complementing Jimmy Red’s naturally oily texture and distinctive fruit character.

At **93 proof**, it remains approachable while retaining enough weight to prevent the finishing cask from overwhelming the underlying whiskey.

It’s an intriguing intersection of **American heirloom grain and European fortified-wine maturation** — and one of the more immediately accessible variations on Jimmy Red.

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