Most tasting kits introduce you to a distillery. This one could help determine whether we pick a barrel from it.
Old Dominick is one of the great revival stories in American whiskey. The brand traces its roots to Italian immigrant Domenico Canale and 1860s Memphis, where Old Dominick became a fixture of the city's whiskey culture before Prohibition brought that chapter to an end. More than a century later, the Canale family resurrected the name and, in 2016, began legally distilling whiskey in Memphis for the first time since Prohibition.
Today, Old Dominick operates a grain-to-glass distillery on South Front Street in downtown Memphis, producing Tennessee whiskey, bourbon and wheat whiskey with a distinctly modern point of view.
At the center of its Tennessee whiskey program is a 75% corn, 13% rye and 12% malted barley mash bill, followed by the Lincoln County Process—filtering the new make through sugar maple charcoal before barreling. But Old Dominick doesn't stop at an easy-drinking flagship. The same distilling philosophy stretches into Bottled-in-Bond whiskey, higher-proof expressions and single barrels that let you see what happens when proof, age and barrel individuality enter the equation.
And then there's the wheat whiskey.
Built around 83% wheat, Old Dominick's single-barrel wheat program offers a dramatically different side of the distillery—older, cask-strength whiskey where wheat replaces corn as the dominant grain.
That's exactly why we're doing this tasting.
This kit is both an introduction and an evaluation. We'll taste six expressions spanning the Old Dominick portfolio and, during the live tasting, discuss whether there is enough member interest to pursue a future Prime Barrel × Old Dominick single barrel selection.
