- Proof
- 100
- Age
- 5 yr
- Style
- RyeStraight Rye Whiskey
- MSRP
- $69.00~$56.99 street
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“A single-barrel rye split between DC and Kentucky warehouses, so each bottle carries the mark of where its barrel rested.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- clove, cinnamon stick and nutmeg over brown sugar and marshmallow, with orange peel, a herbal hint of dill and faint smoky cocoa
- palate
- cracked black pepper and nutmeg, then dark cherry, caramel and candied citrus peel over toasted oak and a resinous edge, settling into cocoa powder and steeped oolong
- finish
- long; cinnamon-candy heat and dry rye spice hold on, fading into dark chocolate and drying to bitter red tea and oak tannin
Mash bill
- Rye95%
- Malted barley5%
95% rye, 5% malted barley. It is a near-all-rye recipe, with only enough malted barley to supply the enzymes that turn the rye's starch into sugar. A rye share this high drives the whiskey's pepper, clove and resinous herbal character.
- Cask
- New charred American oak
- Best served
- neat, or in a Manhattan or Old Pal
Why it's craft
Purpose Rye is a 100-barrel run bottled one barrel at a time, with part of it aged in Washington, DC, and part in Kentucky, so two bottles can show how warehouse and climate change the same whiskey. Republic Restoratives, a women-owned and crowdfunded house founded in 2015, did not distill this rye itself and does not name its distiller. It selects, bottles and labels each barrel in DC.
Republic Restoratives
Independent · Est. 2015