ASW Fiddler Georgia Heartwood Bourbon Whiskey
ASW Fiddler Georgia Heartwood Bourbon Whiskey is the stave-finished, cask-strength expression of ASW's Fiddler line — 750mL, built on a foraged high-wheat bourbon of 51% corn, 45% wheat and 4% malted barley. After aging in new charred oak in Atlanta, Georgia, each barrel is finished on white oak staves that ASW's own distilling team harvested in Georgia and hand-charred, pulling caramel, maple and clove deep into the whiskey. Bottled at cask strength, non-chill-filtered and with no color added, it is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- ABV: Cask strength — proof varies by barrel (label check required; observed picks run roughly 116–120 proof)
- Size: 750mL
- Mash bill: 51% corn, 45% wheat, 4% malted barley
- Aging: New charred American white oak, then finished on hand-harvested, hand-charred Georgia white oak staves
- Origin: Bourbon column-distilled in Indiana; finished and bottled by ASW Distillery, Atlanta, Georgia
- Production: Bottled at cask strength; non-chill-filtered, no color added
- Awards: Gold Medal, San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2018, 2021 and 2022
The Georgia Oak Finish
Most bourbon finishes borrow someone else's barrel. Heartwood borrows Georgia itself: ASW's team harvests local white oak, chars the staves by hand, and rests the finished bourbon on them for its final months, on top of a maturation program that runs through two sets of new charred barrels. The 45% wheat mash — unusually high for bourbon — keeps the profile sweet and soft underneath all that fresh oak, so the cask strength lands as caramel and maple rather than raw heat. Compare it with its sibling on our bourbon shelf, browse the wider whisky range, or see everything from ASW Distillery.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Caramel, maple and baking spice with orange peel. Palate: Toffee, maple and clove over sweet wheated bourbon richness. Finish: Long and warming at cask strength, oak-led.
How to Enjoy
Start neat in small sips — it is cask strength — then add water a teaspoon at a time; the maple and caramel open up noticeably as the proof eases.
Frequently Asked Questions
What proof is Fiddler Georgia Heartwood? It is bottled at cask strength, so the proof varies from barrel to barrel; check the label on your bottle for its exact proof.
What makes Heartwood different from Fiddler Unison? Heartwood is a single high-wheat bourbon finished on hand-charred Georgia oak staves and bottled at cask strength; Unison is a 90-proof marriage of two different bourbons.
Is it distilled in Georgia? The base bourbon is distilled in Indiana and then aged, stave-finished and bottled by ASW in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cask strength, Georgia oak, wheated sweetness — buy ASW Fiddler Georgia Heartwood online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.