- Proof
- 90
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- RyeRye Whiskey
- Street price
- $90.00
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“An all-rye mash from estate grain, moved through two new barrels of rising char.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- vanilla, caramel and honey with prune, apricot and baked apple, brown bread and a fresh herbal edge of dill and pine
- palate
- caramel and honey into fig and candied ginger, then mint, clove and cinnamon over toast and milk chocolate
- finish
- long; caramel and butterscotch hold as cinnamon and rye spice fade into charred, tannic oak
Mash bill
- Rye100%
100% rye. The rye is grown on the Hillrock estate in the Hudson Valley, and with no corn or malted barley in the mash the one grain sets the flavor. It is milled, pot distilled and aged on the same property.
- Cask
- New American oak, #3 char then #4 char
Awards
- Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2020
Why it's craft
The rye in this bottle grows on Hillrock's own fields in Ancram and is milled, distilled, aged and hand-bottled on the estate. The whiskey spends time in one new charred barrel and then a second, more heavily charred one. Hillrock was founded in 2011 by Jeffrey Baker with Cathy Franklin and master distiller Dave Pickerell, on an estate built around an 1806 Georgian house.
Hillrock Estate Distillery
Independent · Est. 2011 · Tours