Johnnie Walker’s blends don’t usually disclose their mashbill, except for this new launch: Excessive Rye, a blended whisky that features 60% rye within the mash. Right here’s the idea:
With a daring profile impressed by iconic Johnnie Walker Black Label tasting notes, Johnnie Walker Excessive Rye Blended Scotch Whisky contains a distinctive mash invoice of 60% rye aged in American oak barrels and contains notable single malts which can be central to the Johnnie Walker Black Label taste profile. This newest innovation by Johnnie Walker Grasp Blender, Jim Beveridge, and Johnnie Walker Whisky Specialist, George Harper, is a style crafted with a trailblazing spirit, years of custom and layers of taste ready to be explored.
The brand new providing has a superbly balanced style that features the candy orchard fruit notes from Cardhu, wealthy berry fruit notes from Glenkinchie, and refined wisps of smoke from Caol Ila. Blended with rye and grain whiskies distilled on the Cameronbridge and Teaninich distilleries, Johnnie Walker Excessive Rye Blended Scotch Whisky was crafted to be an distinctive whisky good for mixing cocktails like a Manhattan, but pleasantly easy to be loved by itself.
For what it’s value: Barley and wheat make up the remainder of the mash. Let’s dig in.
The nostril is punchy: Daring and woody up entrance, then a youthful high quality shortly involves bear. Grassy and grainy directly, with numerous barrel and hemp rope affect. Peanutty with notes of combined greenery, I wouldn’t have argued with you should you informed me this was made in America, not Scotland. The palate doesn’t stray removed from the course, folding collectively spice, minimize grass, and youthful caramel corn-peanut shell notes. A bit gritty on the again finish, with notes of chimney soot and the slightest trace of peat smoke, the whisky feels a bit underdeveloped — however would in all probability work fantastic as a mixer.
90 proof.
B / $35 / johnniewalker.com
Johnnie Walker Excessive Rye
$35
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