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New whiskey releases this week all come from the U.S. Previous Overholt is elevating the age of its flagship straight rye to 4 years, Barrell Craft Spirits is including a Dovetail expression to its Gray Label line, and Daviess County kicks off its vary of toasted barrel finishes with a Frivolously Toasted straight bourbon. Learn on for full particulars.
Previous Overholt 4 yr previous
Type: Straight rye
Origin: Kentucky
Age: 4 yr previous
ABV: 43%
Worth: $20
Launch: August 2022
Availability: Nationwide
Must know:
Previous Overholt is elevating the age of its flagship straight rye from 3 to 4 years previous. The change comes just some years after the proof was raised from 40% to 43% ABV.
Whisky Advocate says:
Previous Overholt has a storied previous, with roots that return to the 1800s. Whereas Beam Suntory moved manufacturing from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, they continue to be dedicated to preserving that historical past, with rye whiskey specialist Bradford Lawrence diving deep into the model’s archives whereas shepherding its fashionable evolution. The rise in proof and age displays what the whiskey would have been bottled at within the early Nineteen Forties.
Overholt additionally launched 11 yr previous and 114 proof expresions in July 2020, each of which have been restricted, and revamped its Bottled in Bond expression the identical yr, with that whiskey touchdown at No. 12 on our 2020 Prime 20 record. Overholt has lengthy been a favourite for bartenders and whiskey drinkers in search of a stable cut price.
Barrell Craft Spirits Gray Label Dovetail
Type: Completed whiskey
Origin: Indiana, Tennessee, and Canada
Age: Not said
ABV: 65.77%
Worth: $250
Launch: August 2022
Availability: Restricted; 13,000 bottles
Must know:
Barrell Craft Spirits is including this Dovetail expression to its Gray Label line. Like the unique Dovetail, which debuted in December 2018, this whiskey was completed in rum, port, and Dunn Vineyards Cabernet barrels. Nevertheless, as a part of the Gray Label line, it pulls from a number of uncommon shares, a few of which have been aged as much as 20 years.
Whisky Advocate says:
Barrell made a reputation for itself as a talented mixing home with a sequence of batched bourbons, utilizing whiskeys distilled in a wide range of locations together with Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana. It has additionally grown its fame for cask ending with a sequence of ingenious releases like Seagrass, Armida, and Dovetail. Your preferences could differ on every of these expressions, which mix collectively a wide range of cask sorts, however there’s no denying Barrell’s depth of stock because it unveils superior aged variations of every. Gray Label Seagrass, which carries a 16 yr age assertion, scored 88 factors within the Summer time 2022 Shopping for Information, one of many many cask energy whiskies reviewed in that problem.
Daviess County Frivolously Toasted
Type: Straight bourbon
Origin: Kentucky
Age: 4 yr previous
ABV: 48%
Worth: $50
Launch: August 2022
Availability: 18,000 bottles
Must know:
This whiskey, which options the model’s signature mixture of high-rye and wheated bourbon mashbills, was aged for four-plus years in charred oak barrels, then completed in calmly toasted American oak barrels.
Whisky Advocate says:
Frivolously Toasted is the primary whiskey in Daviess County’s new vary of toasted barrel finishes, which shall be launched yearly. Daviess County was revived two years in the past by Luxco, guardian firm of Lux Row Distillers, and was initially distilled by Daviess County Distilling Co. again in 1874. Right now, the opposite whiskeys within the lineup embrace a Kentucky straight bourbon, cabernet sauvignon cask-finished bourbon, and a bourbon completed in French oak.
Whiskey Del Bac Normandie
Type: American single malt
Origin: Arizona
Age: Not said
ABV: 48.5%
Worth: $90
Launch: August 6, 2022
Availability: 900 bottles; Arizona, California, Illinois, and New York
Must know:
Normandie is the second annual launch in Arizona-based Whiskey Del Bac’s World Cask Assortment. Three expressions, all impressed by areas of Europe, are launched yearly. To create Normandie Whiskey Del Bac completed its Traditional American single malt in calvados barrels from the coastal area of Normandy, France for 13 months. Normandie was preceded by Frontera (completed in Pedro Ximénez sherry cask from Jerez) and shall be adopted by a Southwest desert spin on closely peated Islay scotch this December.
Whisky Advocate says:
Based in 2006, Whiskey Del Bac is produced by Hamilton Distillers in Tucson. Its lineup consists of core and particular launch single malts. Traditional, Dorado, and Previous Pueblo, an unaged expression. Its particular releases embrace World Cask Assortment and Distiller’s Cuts.
On the base of this expression is Whiskey Del Bac’s Traditional single malt, constituted of 100% barley malt, copper pot distilled, and aged in new charred American oak barrels within the Sonoran Desert. Whiskey Del Bac’s different flagship American single malt Dorado is made utilizing barley smoked over a velvet mesquite fireplace; it scored 90 factors by our assessment panel.
15 Stars 7 & 15 YO Non-public Inventory
Type: Straight bourbon
Origin: Kentucky
Age: 7 yr previous
ABV: 53.5%
Worth: $139
Launch: August 2022
Availability: Restricted
Must know:
The second whiskey within the 15 Stars lineup, this bourbon marries Kentucky straight bourbons aged for 7 and 15 years.
Whisky Advocate says:
Run by father-son duo Rick and Ricky Johnson, 15 Stars is a celebration of Kentucky’s wealthy distilling historical past. Ricky serves because the model’s head blender; whereas this new whiskey was sourced, the model’s first launch, a 14 yr previous bourbon, was contract distilled and warehoused in Bardstown, Kentucky. 15 Stars 7 & 15 YO Non-public Inventory is on the market all through Kentucky, in addition to on-line at seelbachs.com.
Breckenridge Mile Excessive Blends
Type: Bourbon
Origin: Colorado
Age: Not said
ABV: 43%
Worth: $44
Launch: August 8, 2022
Availability: Restricted; Colorado solely
Must know:
These two limited-edition blends of bourbon, Orange and Blue, are the second collaboration Breckenridge Distillery has produced together with the Denver Broncos. Mile Excessive Blue was chosen by Breckenridge head distiller Hans Stafsholt and former (2003-2006) Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer. Breckenridge Distillery founder Bryan Nolt joined forces with former Broncos linebacker Karl Mecklenburg to create Mile Excessive Orange. This yr’s collaboration is known as in honor of the Broncos “Mile Excessive Period”—celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the group’s traditional orange and blue brand used from 1962-1969 that followers affiliate with the now-demolished Mile Excessive Stadium.
Whisky Advocate says:
Breckenridge, the official bourbon of the Denver Broncos soccer franchise, was based in 2008 and is without doubt one of the most excessive places for growing old as it’s located 9,600 toes above sea degree. The primary collaboration on this sequence was the Champions Mix Orange and Blue labels. Like with the Champions Mix, followers can forged a vote for which of the expressions is greatest at breckenridge.com. Voters are then entered to obtain Breckenridge and Broncos swag.
