A Perfect Mash-Up
Jul 19, 2021
3 minutes
By Wayne Curtis
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
HEATHER ANNE THOMAS
Smoke and spirits are well-known co-conspirators. Think of whiskeys from Scotland, or mezcals from Mexico. For years, Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell, the owners of High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina, have been mulling how to create a smoky spirit of their own. After all, “we’re both Southern,” Blackwell says, “and there’s barbecue and smoked ham and bacon here.”
The duo first considered making an experimental smoked sorghum spirit (unexciting), and then gave more thought as to how to add smoke after a trip to Grenada, where they discovered
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