I also taste cinnamon, vanilla bean ice cream, figs, leather, and toasted oak. Palate: The rye spice is more front and center in the mouth than it was in the nose, though it’s friendly and gentle. There is rye spiciness, but not the earthy scents you sometimes find with rye whiskey. Nose: Sawdust, wet wood, cherries, and caramel sweetness. Park City, Utah.Īppearance: Deep bronze color, with legs that stick to the side of the glass. Vital stats: Blend of two straight ryes – one distilled by High West that’s 80% rye and 20% malted rye, and one sourced from MGP Ingredients that’s 95% rye and 5% barley ratio between the two ryes is not disclosed 98.6 proof/49.3% alcohol by volume MSRP of $100 for a 750 ml bottle. Tasting Notes: A Midwinter Night’s Dram, Act 9, Scene 5 It’s High West’s most sought-after annual release, and I’ve been looking forward to finding out whether it justifies all the attention – and to see what I missed out on in 2017. My brother and I had an enjoyable visit, and we enjoyed the the flight. There was no A Midwinter Night’s Dram available in the saloon at the time – or I don’t remember it in the flight we tasted, in any case – but they did have Double Rye! and Rendezvous Rye. We did, however, relish the majesty of the place and enjoyed some whiskey. The saloon likes to call itself “the only ski-in gastro-distillery in the world,” but we neither skied in nor ate anything. I happened to be in Utah in the fall of 2017, and stopped by High West’s Park City Saloon for a tasting flight. It continues to live up to that pledge today. High West’s first release, in 2007, was its Rendezvous Rye – still one of its signature annual bottlings. It didn’t use sourced juice and try to hide that fact it promoted the idea that it was buying good whiskey from others and blending and finishing it in distinctive ways. it was founded in 2006 as an unabashed blender. I guess congratulations are in order, High West, because it looks like you’ve got a baby unicorn on your hands.The High West Distillery has long been one of the more interesting whiskey brands on the American landscape. Of course, it will hit the secondary market eventually as well, and a rep for High West mentioned that it is expected to sell for about $1,000 a bottle once it does. With this year’s release of Act 10, you’ll taste notes of dark rye bread, black currant jam, candied ginger, bergamot, and smoked apple wood.”īoth whiskeys will be available next week, although you’ll have to travel to Utah to get your hands on a bottle of The Encore. “We really started to notice it taking off the past five to six years, and the line that now forms at the distillery bright and early on release day speaks for itself… Each year’s Act is a slightly nuanced expression thanks to the flavors the whiskey picks up from the barrels, which are sourced from different wineries and have unique characteristics. “It goes without saying that A Midwinter Night’s Dram is our most anticipated launch each year,” said Coyle in a statement. Encore is bottled at 101.6 proof and is a distillery-only release ($150). This whiskey was actually supposed to be blended into the new A Midwinter Night’s Dram, but after tasting it master distiller Brendan Coyle liked it so much he decided to release it on its own. According to the distillery team, this type of barrel is much harder to get, and the effect of this cask finish was to give the whiskey similar characteristics to brandy. The Encore has the same blend at its core, but this whiskey was finished in white port barrels from Portugal, an unusual cask finish for American whiskey. It’s bottled at 98.6 proof with an SRP of $150. The formula for A Midwinter Night’s Dram changes from year to year, but the 2022 release is as follows: the liquid consists of High West’s Rendezvous Rye that was finished in tawny and ruby port barrels, a blend of 80 percent rye and 20 percent malted rye distilled in-house, and 95 percent rye and 5 percent barley malt from MGP in Indiana. San Francisco’s Oldest Craft Brewery Is Shutting Down After 127 Years Robb Report Editors’ Favorite Blender Is on Sale for Amazon Prime Day Atlanta Is Getting Its First Michelin Guide
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