What is the mash bill of the Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 19 Year wheat whiskey?
Heaven Hill made the 2025 Heritage Collection 19-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey from its wheat whiskey mash bill, which pairs 51% wheat with 12% malted barley and 37% corn. It is the collection’s first edition on that recipe; the earlier editions used Heaven Hill’s bourbon and corn whiskey mash bills.
What proof is the 2025 Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 19-Year-Old?
The 2025 Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 19-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey is 100 proof, or 50% ABV, and its label designates it Small Batch. Heaven Hill aged it on the fifth and sixth floors of Rickhouse Y from production in August and September 2005.
How is a straight wheat whiskey different from a wheated bourbon?
Federal standards define wheat whisky as whisky from a mash of at least 51% wheat, while bourbon must come from at least 51% corn, so a wheated bourbon is still a corn-majority whiskey. The 2025 Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 19-Year-Old is a Kentucky straight wheat whiskey with 51% wheat in its mash.