Tasting notes

nose

apple blossom and cinnamon-dusted apple with a thread of applewood smoke and baking spice

palate

baked apple and caramel with orange peel and pear marmalade

finish

dried apple and dried pear with blood orange and rye spice, settling into cardamom, vanilla cream and a dry, tea-like edge

Mash bill

Rye and barley, in proportions Widow Jane has not published. The whiskey starts from the same base as Widow Jane's Paradigm Rye, which combines rye made at the Red Hook distillery with straight rye whiskeys selected from Kentucky and Indiana.

Awards

• Double Gold — SIP Awards 2025
• Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2025
• Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024

Why it's craft

The apple wood is what sets this rye apart: fresh-cut staves are toasted and set in with the whiskey alongside the oak, adding fruit and a thread of smoke. The base is the blend Widow Jane uses for its Paradigm Rye, part made at its Red Hook distillery and part bought as straight rye from Kentucky and Indiana. Like every Widow Jane whiskey, it is cut to bottling strength with mineral water from the Rosendale limestone mines, and the Brooklyn house has belonged to Heaven Hill Brands since 2022.