New Riff 8 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Grain to glass
- Non-chill filtered
- Core range
- Proof
- 100
- Age
- 8 yr
- Style
- BourbonKentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- MSRP
- $69.99
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“A 30 percent rye Kentucky bourbon given eight years in new oak and bottled without chill filtration.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- cherry cordial and red fruit with fresh spearmint, caramel chews, nutty cocoa, custard and a touch of old leather
- palate
- bright and cooked cherry, dark berries, chocolate ganache and orange zest over cedar, savory rye spice, pepper and pipe tobacco
- finish
- heavily oaked; tannic wood balanced by sweet cream and butter, with toasted marshmallow and almond drying to char
Mash bill
- Corn65%
- Rye30%
- Malted barley5%
65% corn, 30% rye, 5% malted barley. New Riff cooks it as a sour mash, adding back part of a previous batch, and ferments it in open tanks where the distillery's own microflora can work on it. The water comes from a limestone aquifer directly beneath the Newport distillery.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
- Best served
- neat or in an Old Fashioned
Awards
- Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2025
- Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024
- Gold — Barleycorn Awards 2024
- Gold — New Orleans Spirits Competition 2024
Why it's craft
New Riff distills, ages and bottles all of its own whiskey in Newport, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, and bottles every spirit without chill filtration. Ken Lewis founded the distillery in 2014, and it is still independently owned by one family. This bottling adds an eight-year age statement to New Riff's core range, from a mash with 30 percent rye.
New Riff Distilling
Independent · Est. 2014 · Tours