Rye Whiskey Reviews

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Rye Whiskey Reviews

Fear & Loathing Rye Review: A Smooth 95-Proof Sipper

The nose is a soft blend of caramel corn, cotton candy, mint and a little burnt orange peel: truly pleasant. The palate is bolder with dark caramel, roasted corn, more mint and cherry Lifesaver. Again, quite nice. Nothing to dislike at all.

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BHAKTA 1928 Review: A Unique Blend of Rye and Vintage Spirits

The nose is warm with apple pie filling and dark, caramelized sugar. Despite a mostly rye recipe, it's quite plush, almost buttery, with little in the way of lively spice.

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Old Forester 117 Series: Bottled-in-Bond Rye: Bottle, Bar or Bust?

On the palate, it's definitely a rye whiskey. Gentle spice and herbal characters separate it immediately from the sweetness of Old Forester Bourbon. Expectedly, there's caramel and white chocolate in the mix, but those notes are offset pleasantly with a little mint, some eucalyptus and white pepper.

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High West The Noble Share Review: Amburana Strikes Again

This one definitely won't be for everybody, so I highly recommend you test drive it at a well-stocked watering hole first.

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Pinhook 9-Year Vertical Rye Review: Aged Elegance Unveiled

Tingling with spices like white pepper and coriander, it practically vibrates on the palate. Darkly toasted bread, French roast coffee, charred lemon, dried cherry, spearmint and some campfire mingle nicely alongside cocoa nibs. The finish is simple: long and warming.

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New Riff Balboa Rye 2025 Review: A Bold Take on Heirloom Rye

This liquid is its own animal, a whiskey that, tasted blind, might fool a few folks into thinking it's a low-rye bourbon. Get a bottle and let the fun begin.

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Sagamore Double Oak Rye Whiskey Review: A Bold Oak-Heavy Experience

The palate leads with cedar, bitter chocolate, new oak, clove and black pepper. It leaves the tongue tingling more than burning, but either way, it's spicy beyond what you normally encounter with 96 proof.

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Middle West Spirits Dark Pumpernickel Rye Review: A Unique Cask Strength Experience

According to Middle West, this is the first dark pumpernickel rye whiskey made in North America, and its mash bill contains 80 percent of that grain. Want a rye that's not a dill Katz's Deli pickle? Try this.

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Bulleit 10 Year Rye Whiskey Review: A Decade of Bold Rye Flavor

This also is a delight on the palate: tingly, tropical-fruity (ripe pineapple/cooked pineapple and under-ripe banana), cherry and orange hard candy, light caramel, white chocolate with a subtle hints of dill and toasted oak.

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Buzzard's Roost Char #1 Rye Whiskey Review

The nose finds soft aromas of fresh plums and peaches before brighter aromatics such as citrus and cedar move in. The expected rye guys–dill and spearmint–arrive later.

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Michter's 2024 10 Year Single Barrel Straight Rye Whiskey Review

But that's not as fun as pointing to that classic nose of bubble gum, dried flowers and fruit pastries. The barrel has a say, of course, introducing spice and tannin sotto voce, while letting tropical fruit and bruleed sugar speak a bit louder.

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Elijah Craig Toasted Rye Review

Just look at that bottle. Leaning nonchalantly up against the wall of what appears to be a very nice Las Vegas bathroom. I can almost imagine it taking a long drag off a cigarette and telling me to lighten up. If an inanimate object could exude cool, it would be this one.

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New Riff Distilling 8 Year Rye Whiskey Review

The 8-year-old starts off dark and deliciously grain-forward on the nose and remains dark with whiffs of molasses, sassafras, flat cola and charred oak. Hints of black pepper and baking spices follow and finish alongside rich notes of bitter chocolate.

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Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Rye Whiskey Review

This is probably the most unique offering in the Grain to Glass lineup, not least because it's the only true cask strength expression.

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Sagamore Spirt Manhattan Finished Rye Whiskey Review

If you're expecting a ready-to-drink Manhattan, it's not quite that. Wondering if it might be, I fridge-chilled it, poured it into a chilled glass and garnished it with an expressed orange peel.

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15 Stars First West Fine Aged Rye Whiskey Review

Its aromas begin with bright citrus, ripe fruit, a whiff of mint and some a solid serving of baking spice. Unexpectedly, toffee joins the party alongside maple syrup and caramelized brown sugar.

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High West Bottled-In-Bond Rye Review

I opened it immediately upon receipt and found it coiled up like a snake and needing to unwind before showing much of the character that would come with a bit of some space in the bottle. Several weeks later, it delivered.

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A. Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey Review

This is rye whiskey that speaks beyond corn's common caramel coating with a voice that goes deeper, all the way into the soil itself, to tell its own story, a story I find utterly intriguing because it reveals itself through taking new sips to turn a new page in the tale.

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Frey Ranch Straight Rye Whiskey Review

The nose is grain and barrel forward; the former light, citrusy, spicy and a little candied; the latter toasty and lightly charred with some smoldering campfire. It's really pleasant to sniff and suss out new aromas.

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Green River Rye Whiskey Versus

Following our recent review of Green River Rye Whiskey, we thought creating a video comparing it to Bulleit Rye and Wild Turkey Rye 101 would be fun. Check it out below and let us know your thoughts about the new Green River once you get your hands on a bottle.

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Green River Rye Whiskey Review

Green River Rye offers a different flavor journey compared to its peers. Its sweeter profile and milder peppery taste make it more accessible, potentially appealing to a broader audience, including those who might find other rye whiskeys too intense.

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Brother's Bond American Blended Rye Whiskey Review

A quick whiff of the nose, and there's no denying this is a rye whiskey reporting for duty. It has all the classic hallmarks of a high rye mash bill rye whiskey from MGP–candied fruit, bright rye spice, caramel and juicy fruit.

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Michter's 10 Year Kentucky Straight Rye Review – 2023 Release

A single sip shows off its super-soft mouthfeel, and as always, this whiskey is precision balanced with no single flavor rushing to the fore. Soon enough, though, toasted oak emerges arm and arm with candied cherry, sugar maple candy and graham cracker.

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Michter's US*1 Toasted Barrel Finish Rye Review

Michter's actually started the whole toasted finish craze back in 2014, but it wasn't until 2017 that the first toasted rye came along. With this latest release, Michter's has kept to three-year intervals (the second release hit shelves in 2020).

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Very Olde St. Nick Ancient Cask Rye: Faith + Conviction Review

The rye spice launches like a honey-lemon toddy upfront before exploding like fireworks on the back palate. In it's wake is a trail of spice, demerara syrup and honey all the way down the throat.